Karen Mercedes wrote:
>Mezzo soprano, prior to that, was another such "invented" category
>to accommodate the women who weren't quite sopranos and not quite
>mezzos.
I thought that "mezzo" was simply an abbreviation of "mezzo soprano".
Am I mistaken in that the terms refer to two distinct voice types
rather than one?
My impression about these terms is reinforced by an experience in
which I referred to "mezzo" as a dynamic level. I was asked "mezzo
what"? I was told that "mezzo" means "medium" and doesn't have any
meaning until it modifies another term, as in "mezzo forte" or "mezzo
piano" or "mezzo soprano".
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