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Definition of Sopranos
1. soprano [n] - See also: soprano
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sopranos
Literary usage of Sopranos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Success in Music and how it is Won by Henry Theophilus Finck, Ignace Jan Paderewski (1909)
"IX THREE AMERICAN sopranos LILLIAN NORDICA LILLIAN NORTON is the real name of
the singer who has become world-famed as Lillian Nordica. ..."
2. Exercises in Harmony: Simple and Advanced, Supplementary to the Treatise on by Benjamin Cutter (1899)
"FLORID sopranos These florid sopranos may be treated partly as piano pieces,
partly as pieces for a violin with piano accompaniment. Or, to acquire skill, ..."
3. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"Virgins, probably = "for altos or sopranos " (Speaker's Commentary}. Air-gnn.
An instrument for propelling bullets or other missiles by the force of ..."
4. Handel by Romain Rolland (1916)
"Admeto (1727) : 2 sopranos, 2 Altos, 1 Contralto (Admeto), (Orlando), 1 Bass.
Deidamia (1747) : 3 sopranos (one is Achilles' ..."
5. Journal of the Society of Arts by Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1866)
"... two altos, and two sopranos from the villagers, and supplemented them by some
more practised amateur friends of the committee, who also fully entered ..."