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Above; before; over; upon.

A treble singer.

The treble; the highest vocal register; the highest kind of female or boy's voice; the upper part in harmony for mixed voices.

An apple-green variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry.

See Chrysoprase. Rev. xxi. 20.

Having a medium compass between the soprano and contralto; -- said of the voice of a female singer. -- n.

oices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor.

The highest vocal part; the air or melody in choral music; anciently the tenor, now the soprano. Canto fermo ( Etym: [It.] (Mus.), the plain ecclesiastical chant in cathedral service; the plain song.

son castrated for the purpose of improving his voice for singing; an artificial, or male, soprano. Swift.

The canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble. Grove. Twenty doctors expound one text twenty ways, as children make descant upon plain song. Tyndale. She [the nightingale] all night long her amorous descant sung. Milton.

A part, whether alto or tenor, intermediate between the soprano and base; a middle part. [Obs.] The mean is drowned with your unruly base. Shak.

a series of vocal tones of a given compass; as, the upper, middle, or lower register; the soprano register; the tenor register.

The highest of the four principal parts in music; the part usually sung by boys or women; soprano.

compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whose scale, both diatonic and chromatic, is complete without the aid of keys or pistons, and which can slide from note to note as smoothly as the huma…