What is the lowest male voice range?!
Question: What is the lowest male voice range!?
Please settle the argument we are having that was started by a Barry White song!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Answers:
Barry White was definitely a bass or "Basso Profundo"!. Baritone is the next range up but it's a common misconception that it is the lowest!. There is actually a contra bass range!. You hear it in Russian choirs!. Www@Enter-QA@Com
The generally accepted lowest male singing voice is called a "basso profundo" in opera singing!. It is the "deepest" of bass ranges, and there are only a few singers who can achieve these operatic roles!.
Here is one definition from the Merriam Webster Dictionary:
Main Entry: bas·so pro·fun·do
Pronunciation: \?ba-(?)sō-pr?-?f?n-(?)dō, ?b?-, -?fu?n-\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural basso profundos
Etymology: Italian, literally, deep bass
Date: 1853
: a deep heavy bass voice with an exceptionally low range ; also : a person having this voiceWww@Enter-QA@Com
Here is one definition from the Merriam Webster Dictionary:
Main Entry: bas·so pro·fun·do
Pronunciation: \?ba-(?)sō-pr?-?f?n-(?)dō, ?b?-, -?fu?n-\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural basso profundos
Etymology: Italian, literally, deep bass
Date: 1853
: a deep heavy bass voice with an exceptionally low range ; also : a person having this voiceWww@Enter-QA@Com
Bass
Here's a site with the specific notes for each range:
http://www!.library!.yale!.edu/cataloging/m!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Here's a site with the specific notes for each range:
http://www!.library!.yale!.edu/cataloging/m!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Baratone!?Www@Enter-QA@Com