A pair of two-note phrases repeat and are answered by two lower notes, rising.
But Ms. Ossum, possessing a particularly wide range, anchors the harmonies with rich and velvety lower notes.
We spent a lot of time in the lower notes, which last on your skin a lot longer.
The lower notes use single strings, while the middle and higher notes use two or three strings each, which helps increase their volume.
Carey can sing lower notes, like an alto, and extremely high notes, like a coloratura soprano, which says something about her range but little about her style.
She is very much a Verdi singer, with a sizable, warm, clean voice that extends from tawny lower notes to a clear, definite top.
A whorl of turbulence had Mr. Jarrett racing and crashing down in the piano's lower notes, at one point suggesting Jets-vs.-Sharks interludes from "West Side Story".
As Aida, Violeta Urmana also had some treacherous moments, particularly in the Act III Nile scene, when her high notes turned shrill, and her lower notes disappeared altogether.
When test subjects match food and wines with musical notes, sweets seem to get high notes, while savories get lower notes.
D'Anna Fortunato, a mezzo-soprano not heard much in New York in the last decade, sang four cantata arias honorably though not quite freshly, her lower notes failing to knit smoothly with the rest of the voice.
The general level of singing was not high (though Philip Skinner was a strong Zuniga); Mark Duffin was a Don José with warm lower notes and a small, pressed, metallic sound on the higher ones.
