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These composers really wrote music for bass, tenor and screamer/soprano but later grudgingly re-allocated some of the soprano parts to 'contraltos', just to shut them up. And the contraltos did shut up, because they couldn't reach the notes. This is the reason nobody notices the 'alto' section of choirs: they are entirely silent, because the music that has been given to them was actually really meant for 8-old boys hundreds of years ago, when everybody was shorter and had far higher voices anyway.

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  • These composers really wrote music for bass, tenor and screamer/soprano but later grudgingly re-allocated some of the soprano parts to 'contraltos', just to shut them up. And the contraltos did shut up, because they couldn't reach the notes. This is the reason nobody notices the 'alto' section of choirs: they are entirely silent, because the music that has been given to them was actually really meant for 8-old boys hundreds of years ago, when everybody was shorter and had far higher voices anyway.
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  • A member of the Citharede Abbey Choir.
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  • Contralto
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  • No
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  • One Piercing Note
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  • 2011-11-07(xsd:date)
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  • Female
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  • These composers really wrote music for bass, tenor and screamer/soprano but later grudgingly re-allocated some of the soprano parts to 'contraltos', just to shut them up. And the contraltos did shut up, because they couldn't reach the notes. This is the reason nobody notices the 'alto' section of choirs: they are entirely silent, because the music that has been given to them was actually really meant for 8-old boys hundreds of years ago, when everybody was shorter and had far higher voices anyway. Contraltos with the misfortune to end up in choirs have a life expectancy of 2 years. Most die of laryngeo-cephalic rupture, unless they fight the 'glass floor', recast themselves as tenors, and escape a certain career of bitch-fights. A kinder view is that a contralto is just a female tenor, contra (at odds with) alto, which is not really a voice part at all but a Bermuda Triangle for women not high-voiced enough to scream.
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