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Updated: July 1, 2025
It was the altos that were wrong when you heard the 'Missa Brevis. But you didn't hear they were out of tune. That piano has falsified your ear, but it will come back to you." "Dear father, how funny you are! If nothing were more wrong than my ear ..." They glanced at each other hastily, and to change the subject he mentioned that he had had a letter that morning from Ulick.
The chewink, the indigo bird, the glad goldfinches, the plaintive pewees are the sopranos; the blue-bird, the quail, with her long, sweet call, and the grosbeak, with his mellow tones, are the altos; the nuthatch and the tanager take up the tenor, while the red-headed woodpeckers, the crows and the cuckoos bear down heavy on the bass. Growing with the light, the fugue swells into crescendo.
Many, for instance, wish to be altos, either because they are afraid of ruining their voices by working for a higher compass, or because it is easier for them, even if their voices are not altos at all. Nowadays operas are no longer composed for particular singers and the special characteristics of their voices.
Some basses and low baritones can be trained to reach the high notes of the male vocal compass in falsetto, but as natural facility to produce these notes is lacking in such voices and their production is due wholly to artifice, the reversion to the boy quality of voice is so complete and it predominates to such a degree that these voices are known as male altos.
At a distance of one hundred miles from its hanks, at a slightly increased elevation, appears a sandy terrace the greater portion barren, though in some places bearing grasses, and supplying water to the wide-extending plains below. This barren region, which occupies the most northern part of South America, is called the Llanos Altos.
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