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A bass is a type of classical male singing voice and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types.According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a vocal range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C (i.e., E 2 –E 4).
Basso profondo (Italian: [ˈbasso proˈfondo], "deep bass"), sometimes basso profundo or contrabass, is the lowest bass voice type.. While The New Grove Dictionary of Opera defines a typical bass as having a range that extends downward to the second E below middle C (E 2), [1] operatic bassi profondi can be called on to sing low C (C 2), as in the role of Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier.
1965: Bass, Bass, Bass (re-issued in 1975 as the Stamps Quartet Present Their Dynamic Bass) 1968: The Many Moods of the Illustrious J. D. Sumner; 1969: The Heart of a Man (re-issued in 1982 as The Masters V Present Their Majestic Bass, J. D. Sumner) 1972: The Way It Sounds Down Low; 1984: Thank God for Kids; 1985: An American Trilogy
Bass range: The bass is the lowest male voice. The bass voice has the lowest tessitura of all the voices. The typical bass range lies between E2 (the second E below middle C) to E4 (the E above middle C). In the lower and upper extremes of the bass voice, some basses can sing from C2 (two octaves below middle C) to G4 (the G above middle C). [3]
The bass singing voice has a vocal range that lies around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C (i.e., E 2 –E 4). [1] As with the contralto singing voice being the rarest female voice type, the bass voice is the rarest for males, and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types. [2]
Kurt Moll (11 April 1938 – 5 March 2017) [1] was a German operatic bass singer who enjoyed a widely renowned international career. [2]His voice was notable for its range, a true basso profondo, including full, resonant low and very-low notes with relaxed vibrato; also for its unusual combination of extreme volume-capacity and a purring, contrabassoon-like timbre.
Basso profondo is the lowest bass voice type. According to J. B. Steane in Voices, Singers, and Critics, the basso profondo voice "derives from a method of tone-production that eliminates the more Italian quick vibrato. In its place is a kind of tonal solidity, a wall-like front, which may nevertheless prove susceptible to the other kind of ...
Storms' Guinness World Record for the Lowest Note Produced by a Human is 0.189 Hz (G −7), set in 2012. [3] He has a separate record for Greatest Vocal Range for Any Human, which is about 10 octaves, 0.7973–807.3 Hz (G/G♯ −5 –G/G♯ 5), but does not include the 2 octave extension of the low frequency record set in 2012; the Greatest Vocal Range Record of 10 octaves was set in 2008 ...