contralto

音標(biāo)發(fā)音

"From Jewish Folk Poetry", song cycle for soprano, contralto, tenor and small orchestra.
為女高音，女低音，男高音和小管弦樂(lè)隊(duì)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(gè)女低音歌手幽幽地哼唱著我從未聽(tīng)人唱過(guò)的歌，雖然我曾在我的舊手風(fēng)琴盒里的破爛樂(lè)譜上見(jiàn)過(guò)這些歌詞。 “天空的夜幕落下，已是黃昏時(shí)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(jīng)能聽(tīng)出沙黛嗓音中石墨般的質(zhì)地，她那亞光型的女中音充滿(mǎn)著氣息，透露出一絲隱痛，卻并無(wú)苦楚，置哪怕是不完美的尊嚴(yán)于展覽痛苦之上。

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