>From: vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com
>Reply-To: vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com
>To: vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [vocalist] Digest Number 646
>Date: 21 Apr 2001 08:59:41 -0000
> 16. Who are hautes contre???
Haute-contre is the name of a very high male voice, but not of a counter
tenor.
It existed before the name of tenor appeared (in 1790, and in France only in
1830). Today we can compare it to the leggero tenor.
Marie-Claire
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