Basso profondo
Basso profondo (Italian: "deep bass"), sometimes basso profundo or contrabass, is the bass voice subtype with the lowest vocal range.
While The New Grove Dictionary of Opera defines a typical bass as having a range that is limited to the second E below middle C (E2), operatic basso profondos can be called on to sing low C (C2), such as in the role of Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier. Often choral composers make use of lower notes, such as G1 or even F1, in such rare cases the choir relies on exceptionally deep-ranged basso profondos termed Oktavist or Octavist, whose voice range is a full octave underneath the typical bass range.
Definition
According to the Italian definition, any singer with an E♭2 in fortissimo is a basso profondo. Italian composers considered basso profondos as basses with "large" voices with a range of E2 to E4, lower than typical basses. Although a basso profondo obviously requires the ability to sing notes in a lower register, more importance is placed on the quality of "largeness," or resonance and sonority.
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by Devotchka
Basso Profundo
by: DevotchkaI'm concentrate on teh wrong side of the law
From the creator
of this beautiful strip mall
A decimator of the cinder block world
A ventilator of the rallying call
One by one I take them on
this will be my revolucion
One by one they will be gone
I will not sleep til it be done
Basso profundo
yeah everybody knows
todo el mundo
it's shaking the windows
the tide is shifting
everybody says NO MAS
the boat is drifting
from the ones who control us
They never have enough they never have enough they
never have enough
the money is all that they love
All the world is for the taking
Just forget the hearts you're breaking
Is this love that you are making
or is it a deal?
Renacimiento
that's something I can do
Este pobrecito
has jut gotten some bad news
Mis hermanos we so close
Ten thousand light years
from the ones we love the most
They never have enough they never have enough they
never have enough
the money is all that they love
All the world is for the taking......
You are my sugar
You are the salt upon the earth
When will they see you?
When will they pay you what you're worth?
Amor mio I'm so close
Solo tù y yo
thats what I want the most
I never have enough I never have enough I never have
enough