Six basses, four tenors, and four altos will easily balance twenty-five boy sopranos, if all voices are of average power.
The chief obstacle that is likely to be encountered in training male altos is the fact that the men are apt to regard falsetto singing as effeminate.
Now at that very hour on St. John's Day the mother of Perola was in the church of St. Roque in Altos Ares praying devoutly for her daughter's safe return.
At the time appointed Perola was brought to the bank of the lake in a boat of ivory drawn by a snow-white swan, just as fair and lovely as upon the day when she had vanished from the little village of Altos Ares.
Accordingly, the young men of Altos Ares went to the wise woman, and this is what she told them: "The fair pearl of your village is safe from the fishers of pearls.
Illustration: The beautiful enchanted palace in the lake of Ginjal] Now, with the words of the wise woman of Biscoitos to guide them, the youths of Altos Ares organized an expedition to search for their lost playmate.
The tenors and bassos take the first verse, and the sopranos and altos the second verse in unison, which gives you an excellent opportunity of hearing the various parts of the great chorus by themselves.
His Imperial Majesty had all along marked his approbation of my zealous exertions for the interests of the empire--designating them "altos e extraordinarios servicios.
Around Pinos Altos and Jesus Maria the rock is of blue porphyry, quite hard in places, and speckled with little white patches.
I went still fifteen miles further northward, but found that most of the Indians there had gone to the Pinos Altos mines to look for work.
For example: the female head voice lies approximately within this compass [Illustration: Figure A] and altos who learn to use the real head voice will have no difficulty in vocalizing that high.
With altos and sopranos I start with this exercise [Illustration: Exercise No.
Minerva admins such as Michael Rosenberg--sworn enemy of The Realm--recognised the Altos NUA.
Theorem was popular on Altos and, being the suspicious type, Par knew he would probably take something perfectly innocent and read it the wrong way.
While underground BBSes had a tendency to simply disappear one day, gone forever, Altos was always there.
The beauty of Altos was that, like Pacific Island or any other local BBS, a hacker could take on any identity he wanted.
He had even heard from others onAltos that she was homely.
But no-one from the elite of the Altos underground had a full archive of all the back issues.
What Theorem didn't know was that, not only had she lost access to Altos, but the MOD boys were using her account to hack the Altos system.
Altos might be filled with the world's best hackers, and they might even try to flirt with Theorem, but she'll be thinking of me every time she logs on, he thought.
Altos behind us, the air was hot and muggy and swarming with insect life, and we were glad when the dawn came and we could mount our mules to climb the steep hillside which led up to the tableland of the Alta Vera Paz.
Santa Rita was to be abandoned until the old guide returned; but Pinos Altos was to be visited without him, in a day or two.
We could now see the red earth the miners in this section liked so well to find; they had been prospecting all along Whiskey Creek, but had gone higher and higher, till settling in Pinos Altos proper, at last.
The news of the soldiery coming to this rich mining country was drawing miners and adventurers from far and near, and Pinos Altos promised to become a mining district once more.
In the choral response ("The Apostles and the Martyrs wrapped in Mantles") the sopranos and altos are in unison, making with the first and second tenors a splendid effect.
He was shot some in the fight with the Kid's gang, out to the Piños Altos ranch.
ALTOS Chat was a sophisticated board, accessible through globe-spanning computer networks like BITnet, Tymnet, and Telenet.
ALTOS was much frequented by members of Germany's Chaos Computer Club.
He now wheedled knowledge of switching-station tricks from Urvile on the ALTOS system.
In underground circles, to hang out on ALTOS was considered the sign of an elite dude, a sophisticated hacker of the international digital jet-set.
Fry Guy had run across "Urvile" of the Legion of Doom on the ALTOS Chat board in Bonn, Germany.
The Indians belong chiefly to the Maya stock, which predominates throughout Peten, or to the allied Quiche race which is well represented in the Altos and central districts.
Fruits, grain and medicinal plants are obtained in great abundance, especially where the soil is largely of volcanic origin, as in the Altos and Sierra Madre.
The mean elevation is greatest in the west (Altos of Quezaltenango) and least in the east (Altos of Guatemala).
The relief of the mountainous country which lies north of the Altos and drains into the Atlantic is varied by innumerable terraces, ridges and underfalls; but its general configuration is admirably compared by E.
Thus although here and there a boy may be found with a naturally low voice from the first, the majority of altos will be obtained from older boys, who are approaching the period of change.
We have two men altos here, who sing in a falsetto voice.
Nevertheless, there is nothing to hinder boy altos doing all that is necessary, or, indeed, all that can be done by the adult male alto.
In short, one good man alto I have experienced to be equal to half-a-dozen boy altos as regards tone; and in respect to phrasing and reading I have found men altos decidedly superior.
I find boy altos very effective in modern church music, such as Mendelssohn's anthems, &c.
Dear Mr. Curwen,--I have had boy altos only in my choir for some years.
Haydn Keeton informs me that they had boy-altos at Norwich in Dr.
If I could have really first-class adult altos in my choir I should not think of using boys' voices.
The two gentlemen altos who were in my choir at SS.
He does not regard boy altos as desirable in cathedrals, but in parish churches, where no adult male altos are to be had, they are, no doubt, in place.
I am quite sure that careful training is all that is needed to make boy altosmost efficient members of a choir.
Boy altos can be made to sing without flattening, though they invariably give more trouble than trebles on account of their willingness to let the lower register overlap the one above--to force upward.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "altos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
