MEDIUM VOICE

Francesca Caccini
O chiome belle
RANGE: D4-D5
TESSITURA: F4-B4
Strophic, simple vocal line and rhythms. Good for introducing Baroque style to younger singers.

Settimia Caccini
Core di questo core
RANGE: D4-F5
TESSITURA: G4-D5
Strophic, each verse in three sections. Each section in a different meter. Scalar, middle tessitura, some sustained singing.

Corona Schröter
An den Abendstern
RANGE: D4-E-flat5
TESSITURA: F4-C5
Piano occasionally doubles the vocal melody, strophic, scalar, syllabic, medium tessitura. Great for teaching early German Romantic style.

Maria Theresia Paradis
An meine entfernte Lieben
RANGE: E4-E5
TESSITURA: G4-C5
Piano doubles the vocal melody, Strophic with 3 verses, simple vocal line, scalar and triadic, repeated dotted rhythms.

Emilie Zumsteeg
Reiterlied aus "Leier und Schwert"
RANGE: D4-D5
TESSITURA: G4-D5
Piano doubles the vocal melody, strophic, simple, repetitive vocal line, scalar, medium tessitura.

Pauline Viardot
L'ombre et le Jour
RANGE: F4-F5
TESSITURA: F4-C5
Piano doubles the vocal melody, short phrases, only sustained at the end, repetitive melodic line. Good for a more beginning student approaching French repertoire.

Dorothy Parke
In Old Donegal
RANGE: C4-D5
TESSITURA: D4-D5
Piano occasionally doubles the vocal melody, melody is folk-like, syllabic, more sustained at the ends of phrases, shorter song. Simple scalar melody based off an Irish folksong. Singer must be comfortable sustaining D5.

Lori Laitman
Sleep Little Child
RANGE: C4-E-flat5
TESSITURA: E-flat4-B-flat5
Repetitive vocal line, simple vocal line and rhythms, medium tessitura, arpeggiated, sustained. Good for working on quieter dynamics while staying on the breath.
Picture by Christian Steiner
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