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From: "Tako Oda" <toda@m...>
"Tako Oda" <toda@m...>
Date: Fri Mar 9, 2001 10:44 pm
Subject: Re: Countertenor hogs & common ground with Contralti

--- In vocalist-temporary@y..., Karen Mercedes <vocalist-temporary@y..., Karen Mercedes < > no such thing as a TRUE alto/contralto. That we were all just lazy > sopranos. I feel such empathy for contraltos! There was a heated thread I started last year, when I defended the validity of the term "female bass" which exists in barbershop and modern acappella circles. Another member argued that the term bass should be reserved for men because that is the current operatic use of that word. Ah, Eurocentrism! It's pathetic the lot that contralti get, the met roster doesn't usually even have a Contralto registry, just sopranos and mezzos. How is it that they list countertenors but not contraltos? Sexism? Nah... couldn't be! Tako PS: I'll talk about types of countertenors in my next message.