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Updated: September 1, 2025
At one time every family of distinction in Britain deemed a chest of viols, consisting for the most part of two trebles, two altos, a barytone and a bass, as indispensable to the household as the piano is thought to-day. It was made effective in accompanying the madrigal, that delightful flower of the Elizabethan age.
The still smaller, opposite twigs of the maples murmur like the tender tones of the altos and the fine, yielding spray of the birches, the feathery elm and the hackberry make music pure and sweet as the wailing of the first violins.
'Omne quum Proteus pecus egit altos Visere montes, quoted Philip. 'Ovium et summa, genus haesit ulmo, added Guy. 'Ovium, exclaimed Philip, with a face of horror. 'Don't you know that O in Ovis is short? Do anything but take liberties with Horace! 'Get out of the tree first, Guy, said Charles, 'for at present your history seems likely to end with a long ohone!
You know the session said so." It was well for Polly that she was too big to have her ears boxed. Even so, it might not have saved her if they had been anywhere else than in church. Meanwhile the men who were sitting in the choir three basses and two tenors were beginning to dimly suspect that there was something amiss here too. Where were the sopranos and the altos?
Our Sabine Farm was surrounded by others and there was a neighborhood hymn to the dawn that it took us some time to really enjoy if we ever did. Sopranos roosters; altos pigeons, and ducks; tenors goats; bassos cows, and one donkey. There was nothing missing to make a full, rich volume of sound.
Farther back was old Mail with the altos and supernumeraries. But before they had taken their places, and whilst they were standing in a circle at the back of the gallery practising a psalm or two, Dick cast his eyes over his grandfather's shoulder, and saw the vision of the past night enter the porch-door as methodically as if she had never been a vision at all.
He saw the Saracen, and trembling with aspiration, he heard the great theme of salvation to the Saviour sung by the basses, by the tenors, by the altos; it was held by a divine boy's voice for four bars high up in the cupola, and the belief theme in harp arpeggios rained down like manna on the bent heads of the knights.
Altos should begin at A. In practicing these swells great care must be taken. Tone quality is the first consideration, and the tone must be pressed no further than is possible while retaining the pure singing quality. Where voices have been forced and are accustomed to sing nothing but thick tones this building process is sometimes slow.
Further, the light mechanism must be carried far below the point where the so called change of register occurs. Every voice should have a head register, and it may be developed in the following way. With altos and sopranos I start with this exercise Altos should begin at A. The student should neither feel nor hear the tone in the throat. Therefore he should begin with a soft oo.
The trebles and the altos were of course the great difficulty; the boys often burst into tears; they said they preferred to die rather than endure his discipline. He was often sorry for them, for he knew that the perfect singing of this contrapuntal music was almost impossible except by castrati.
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