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Marinara_Sauce :
rare-? rare like my whole alto section (including me) are women??
2024-07-17 23:54:18
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Preston :
Yea that man doesn’t not know enough about vocal pedagogy. There are voice types that are used for classical operatic or bel canto style singing but that only really applies when you are a soloist. In
2024-07-17 23:06:21
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milkandexsanguination :
True operatic contraltos are extremely rare but in choral singing alto is the part you're singing not your natural vocal range 😳. Opera uses your full trained range and choral singing usually doesn't
2024-07-18 21:27:17
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Electric Ash :
most of my high school choir was alto... and like 10 of us were semi-forced sopranos...
2024-07-18 04:55:13
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Witch ✨️ :
One time, my musical and drama theatre groups had a performance together where we had to divide up into a 4 part choir. Since we were low on boys, they put me in with the bases because I could go low
2024-09-20 08:30:42
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Bri (they/them) :
dude i had a chior teacher say that female low altoes dont exist. i was on par with the tenors. yet they had me singing some high notes i could not hit at all
2024-07-18 18:49:29
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Marie (Luna Maris) :
Wait what?! I've always learned that altos are the low females, and sopranos are high females. Tenores and Altos are about the same range, but different genders?
2024-09-27 07:04:13
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BendyBallerina :
He had a really weird way of expressing it, but it's sort of true? Physiological contraltos are extremely rare. But "alto" is a part of a choir, not a physiological description of your voice
2024-07-18 14:31:25
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Rebel Dreaming :
Sounds like he was doing a terrible job teaching if he didn't know you physically couldn't sing those songs. Like his statement about altos is wrong - but it also is a failing from a teaching standpoint to not have any idea of what your students can do.
2024-07-18 05:44:31
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Nani.chan12 :
I sing in a school choir and we have 20 female altos and 4 female sopranos including me (I'm a mezzo but still) so idk how altos don't exist
2024-10-07 05:06:00
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Melody :
Mary, the opera singer on here, has talked about “alto” not being an opera term. But then your music teacher should have been dividing between soprano and mezzo soprano.
2024-07-17 23:14:42
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Your Guardian Angel(a) :
Voice type and choir part are different labels. You can be an alto in choir but a soprano voice type. An alto VT depends on range and vocal tone (Tracy Chapman).
2024-07-18 08:23:43
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scouthawkk :
Female; sang alto in college women’s choir.
2024-07-18 05:26:18
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sweetjennilicious :
I usually sang with altos in our choir because I am absolutely not a soprano. but sometimes I joined the few male voices we had because that section needed more and I can't even hit some alto notes.
2024-07-18 09:21:26
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TheBeardedWoman :
I wonder what he would say when I can sing bass!
2024-07-18 07:55:00
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🍉displacerkatsidhe🍉 :
I was an alto naturally. I was capable of hitting notes in all 5 octaves, but my natural octave is, and always has been alto.
2024-07-18 12:48:08
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BitchingRagingFisting :
HUH
2024-07-18 01:24:37
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Josh - PersonalZombie :
I'm naturally a low alto and like, gender affirmed I guess but yeesh. most women I know are altos
2024-07-18 15:34:43
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Katelyn :
... We were always told that Alto was primarily female...every choir competition had only female Altos, everywhere my choir went. it was Base and Tenors for guys, Alto soprano for girls
2024-07-17 22:18:58
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Rafael :
Alto....like the lowest range of the FEMALE range??? Lmao I was born an alto (idk where I am rn bc I am on T but I could NEVER do soprano notes)
2024-07-17 22:21:37
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Robin :
we always had trouble getting boys to join so I was a tenor one year. 😅 assigned male by choir director
2024-07-17 22:57:48
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Anna aka articulatelyComposed :
Contraltos are rare. Operatic contraltos are the voice part that you rarely see. Alto lines in choir are written for lower female voices (and sung primarily by mezzos. I’m gonna guess you’re a mezzo)
2024-07-17 23:45:07
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Mae Thayer :
I had the lowest voice in women's choir (until they dropped that class) and not only was I labeled as an alto, but I sang the men's part in any song that had one. I'm feckin proud of that.
2024-07-18 03:09:43
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Koi :
maybe he was thinking of contraltos? those are very rare from what I've heard (or haven't heard)
2024-07-17 23:47:51
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gæ_witch :
He must’ve confused choral altos and contraltos. Alto is a very reasonable voice part for someone AFAB. AFAB can be tenors without T sometimes. Contraltos are rare, but they definitely exist.
2024-07-17 22:40:32
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Amanda :
my high school choir's all female alto section was larger than the sopranos
2024-07-18 00:32:07
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VintageTeaShenanigan :
I mean technically in opera alto isn't a thing, but in choir and theatre amab are tenors/bari/bass and afab are alto/mezzo/sops lol I think true male altos are much rarer lol
2024-07-17 23:59:17
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Sinmara :
I had a choir teacher insist that the women not sing too low because it was bad for their voices. She'd have the men sing the really low alto notes. I wonder if this is just an outdated idea.
2024-07-17 22:44:21
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tyrjiora :
and yet I, a capable soprano, was cast as a pirate crew member in our rendition of Pirates of Penzance because 75% of the boys in choir couldn't hit a lot of the lower notes in the chorus lines
2024-07-17 22:24:55
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Amanda :
I am so floored by this. I sorry you had such an experience where your teacher refused to actually listen to your range. Every choir I've been in has females singing the alto of SATB.
2024-07-18 01:46:56
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SarDybzi :
Same. all girls were soprano and all the boys were alto, tenor, and tenor. I didn't last long in chior. I hated singing until just a few year ago when I started singing in my lower register.
2024-07-18 00:38:58
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Kelsmur :
I know why this is! there are 2 categorization of female voices. for solo operatic singing: soprano. mezzosoprano, and contralto. for choral singing: usually soprano, mezzo, alto. so alto is really...
2024-08-04 17:21:24
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Torako :
when i was in choir the teacher just put all the girls he didn't think were good enough as altos, I think. it definitely didn't have anything to do with our actual ranges
2024-07-17 22:58:30
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EK Prazan :
*stares in female alto* what the Kentucky fried fu...?
2024-07-17 22:56:02
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🍉 :
that's so sad I'm so sorry he did that to you. I'm an alto and I would've hated choir if I was forced to be a soprano
2024-07-17 22:26:58
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mack :
i was taught in middle school choir that soprano and alto were for the ‘girls’ and tenor, baritone, and bass (altho we didn’t have bass bc we were babbies lmao) were for ‘boys’
2024-07-17 22:52:36
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lockadocka84 :
IDK, I stopped giving af when my choir teacher, in 7th grade, told me to stop crossing my arms because 'my breasts weren't going to fall off.'
2024-07-18 01:54:37
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dean (Ωverse guy) 🍉 :
thats fucking insane what the fuck
2024-07-17 23:22:07
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🏳️🌈🍉Biplaz_fandom🍉🏳️🌈 :
I in my life I learned to do a standard sans impression but also did a flowey impression. when I got into choir I discovered that I could do soprano, alto, and even most of the notes for tenor.
2024-07-17 23:16:45
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graceisprobablyonline :
That’s so weird?!?! Choir / drama teachers are a force of nature I swear
2024-07-17 22:19:59
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Beans🇱🇹 :
you could have been a metzo saprano which is the in-between of those 2 🤷 but that guy is weird for not thinking you could be an alto
2024-07-17 22:17:48
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hehe_duckie🚦 :
But I exist…
2024-08-12 11:30:44
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Cal :
my dad was an alto, and he had to be in the women's choir in highschool. I'm trans and a low tenor or baritone, around the same age lol
2024-07-18 19:25:10
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Tidbit :
I started as an alto but was moved to tenor in my high school choir. Of course, turns out I'm transmasc so... 😅
2024-07-18 10:35:23
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Katie Leffler :
Somehow... I can feel my former choir teacher raging at this story, and I'm pretty sure she doesn't know you exist
2024-07-18 03:21:16
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j3n4b0wl :
As a choir director, I hate that this person ruined singing for you 😔
2024-07-18 02:27:20
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Jane :
but....im an alto...i dont exist? thats going to be hard to explain to my daughter.
2024-07-18 01:43:44
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Puckwalk :
Okay, so I work in opera and I think this dude got confused about choral vs FACH vocal types. In the Fach system, choral altos are usually mezzo sopranos. Fach Contraltos are whats rare.
2024-07-18 00:33:56
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Emily :
as a female that was nearly classified as a baritone I will now be identifying as a mythical creature thank you
2024-07-17 23:44:56
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SylvanGlory :
That is INSANE. I'm the exact same way, can't hit all the soprano notes, probably alto.
2024-07-17 23:38:40
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selctionbias :
Thats awful. Im sorry that misogynist jerk was your teacher
2024-07-17 22:48:04
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Zira :
I literally would sing tenor in my show choir- like I can sing some soprano lines- but I prefer to sing low and like it way better
2024-07-17 22:39:57
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tyrjiora :
my actual mouth opened and closed so many times. and I don't know what else to type. I personally knew 3 other women who were fantastic singers whose voice range did not extend anywhere near mezzosop.
2024-07-17 22:21:23
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Birna 🇮🇸 in 🏴 :
I’m a contralto and when I was a kid my first choir director kept me in “1. soprano” because I was always the first one to learn the songs and she used me to teach the girls around me
2024-10-15 00:25:01
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outlaws.and.outsiders :
i bet youre a mezzo
2024-09-15 20:55:37
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FuszyChick :
My daughter was forced into second soprano and nearly destroyed her voice. She sings comfortably in the tenor range with alto also being okay. She took chorus in school for 6 years and sang at church
2024-08-20 23:27:36
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Blackboxwarrior🐀🌕/♟️/⚠️👁️/ :
Oh shit guess I dont exi-
2024-08-16 02:52:07
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Emily Barrett :
this makes me feel so much rage and I want to take down this idiotic man
2024-08-14 23:25:16
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Hanners :
"based on range" but doesn't actually test to see what your range is 😅
2024-08-14 04:06:59
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Mia Rose :
that's really weird and seems more sexist than about ability. my teacher said it was rare to have a female being a natural tenor/bass but there were male and female Altos.
2024-08-09 11:51:54
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