1The highest of the four standard singing voices.

1. 1.1 A female or boy singer with a soprano voice.
   女高音歌手；（男）童声高音歌手
   Example sentencesExamples

   • It starred a young soprano Marie Slowey and the officer and the singer fell in love and married.
   • A gilded fountain played in the central stage, two sopranos sang operatic duets while the New Zealand School of Dance, in medieval-style costumes, danced around the fountain.
   • As the main emphasis of the courses lies in the choir made up of all participants, space is limited to approximately twenty sopranos, twelve altos and counter-tenors, and sixteen basses.
   • A soprano, she sings for nonprofit organizations' benefits and is gaining singing experience through a local opera company.
   • Earlier in Freni's career she was primarily a lyric soprano, and even sang coloratura roles such as Elvira in Bellini's I Puritani.
   • It wasn't that long ago when a soprano either sang all of Bellini or left him alone.
   • These are sung by the soprano Anne Schwanewilms, a new name yes, but definitely a rising and shining voice in the singing firmament.
   • Three sopranos blend their voices together in eerie beauty, and the male chorus provides a firm underpinning, often through chanting.
   • He visited Rome and Naples where he made contact with a number of singers, including the soprano Anna Strada who would become his leading lady.
   • She played it to the hilt as an over-inebriated soprano trying to sing in an operetta.
   • If you like standard contemporary Irish folk sung by a lilting soprano, here you go.
   • Eight members of The Clerks' Group appear here: two sopranos, two altos, two tenors, and two basses.
   • It's an all out show but the music is just so emotional, it requires such a range in a singer, particularly the lead soprano.
   • There's nothing wrong with that (the soprano and mezzo who sang in the premiere were Verdi's original Aïda and Amneris).
   • The soprano sings the text, often one syllable at a time, at the extreme top of her range.
   • As I mentioned, last night there were three singers the choir - two basses and a soprano - off singing in a performance of the Rachmaninov Vespers.
   • Why Mozart composed the motet for Rauzzini and not a female soprano is not known.
   • When one of Suzuki's sopranos sang a high A a tiny bit flat at the dress rehearsal.
   • It was particularly irksome during a serene hymn by the medieval composer Machaut, sung by three sopranos from Paul Hillier's Theatre of Voices during the opening weekend of the inaugural festival.
   • The Armonico Consort's vocal forces were slightly larger, with eight sopranos singing the divided top line.
2. 1.2 A part written for a soprano voice.
   女高音声部
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   • The association began prohibiting boys from singing alto or soprano and girls from singing tenor or bass about two years ago.
   • Anne Sofie von Otter is a stunningly good choice as Sesto, a young nobleman who Handel wrote as either soprano or tenor, so to cast such an intelligent mezzo is an imaginative step.
   • An aria from a modern opera is the title of a new work for soprano and orchestra written by composer John Haddock.
   • The younger is an alto but everyone makes her sing soprano.
   • But before the last movement of the symphony, a solo for soprano, Mahler's musical realisation of a child's view of heaven, he discreetly opens his score.
   • The music was fun and in that situation I liked singing soprano better than singing alto, although I do love the inner harmonies, too.
   • She was an alto trying to sing soprano and missing.
   • Jane Hunt will sing soprano, Pamela Rudge alto, Roland Kitchen tenor and Paul Fletcher bass.
3. 1.3usually as modifier An instrument of a high or the highest pitch in its family.
   高音乐器
   a soprano saxophone

   高音萨克斯管。

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   • The sound of Kenny G's soprano sax filled every corner of the room.
   • Over the years, McPhee has become adept on alto and soprano saxes, value trombone, flugelhorn, pocket trumpet, cornet, and various clarinets.
   • Steve Lacy plays soprano saxophone throughout Taylor's set, and he foreshadows John Coltrane's sound on the same instrument a few years later.
   • Band leader, Ray Blue, is also a composer, arranger and performer on tenor, alto and soprano saxophones.
   • It's accordion, soprano sax, clarinet, bass, banjo and percussion.
   • On soprano sax, he adds featured guest Joe McPhee, the avant-jazz legend whose career is so crucial that the HatHut label was founded specifically to document his work.
   • Parker's ‘New Fork’ explores circular territory that he normally negotiates on the soprano horn, making sideline squeaks and tubular honks.
   • This CD features five recording sessions from 1949-the year in which the majestic New Orleans-born soprano saxophonist decided to make France his home.
   • It's yet another great pop song, despite the fact that the sound of a soprano sax gets me sawing off my shotguns and studying my Catcher in the Rye every time.
   • This leads to a nice soprano sax solo, and the tune is well within the domain of standard fusion.
   • However, it does demonstrate Simmons' impressive command of an instrument rarely heard in jazz, which sounds like a slightly deeper and richer soprano saxophone.
   • The veteran soprano saxophonist is pre-eminent on his instrument and has worked with many jazz greats, including Thelonious Monk, Gil Evans and Cecil Taylor.
   • Tom Arthurs' Centipede are fidgety writhers, striking angular shapes with tricky grooves and utilising the spiked fork of their leader's trumpet and Laubrock's soprano saxophone.
   • He since has gone on to become as one of the finest soprano saxophone players in the world with a unique, dark, rich tone.
   • The horns jostle, then take flight, with Jones on soprano saxophone, tipping in some searing soul-blues streaks.
   • That was when he decided to switch to soprano saxophone - the instrument he's known for by most jazz fans.
   • His buoyant, spicy soprano sax is front and centre, burbling among the snappy rhythms and lush textures of the vibrantly produced tracks.
   • The song bolts out with an anticipatory, pulsing rhythm under a soprano sax solo by Bruce Ackley.
   • David Liebman is widely regarded as one of the finest musicians in the world on the soprano saxophone.
   • My Oboe Concerto also plays with this kind of baroque set-up: the soloist is surrounded by a group of three more oboes and a soprano saxophone.

   Synonyms

   high, high-frequency, soprano, treble, falsetto, shrill, acute, sharp, piping, piercing, penetrating