contralto

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"From Jewish Folk Poetry", song cycle for soprano, contralto, tenor and small orchestra.
爲女高音，女低音，男高音和小琯弦樂隊而作的“猶太人的民歌”。
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A woman’s smoky contralto crooned words I’d never heard sung, though they were printed on the tattered sheet music in my old accordion case.
一個女低音歌手幽幽地哼唱著我從未聽人唱過的歌，雖然我曾在我的舊手風琴盒裡的破爛樂譜上見過這些歌詞。 “天空的夜幕落下，已是黃昏時分。
We could already hear the graphite core in Sade’s voice, a grainy contralto full of air that betrays a slight ache but no agony, and values even imperfect dignity over a show of pain.
我們已經能聽出沙黛嗓音中石墨般的質地，她那亞光型的女中音充滿著氣息，透露出一絲隱痛，卻竝無苦楚，置哪怕是不完美的尊嚴於展覽痛苦之上。

Ms. MARIAN ANDERSON (Contralto): (Singing) Come, Lord, Lord of morning.
NPR: Conductor James DePreist
Asians are to be seen on classical podiums across America, but, as the author notes in a profile of Marian Anderson, a contralto whom Arturo Toscanini called a once-in-a-century voice, blacks make up just 2% of orchestral players.
ECONOMIST: Essays by the New Yorker's music critic