Sentence examples for were altos from inspiring English sources
noun
A musical part or section higher than tenor and lower than soprano, formerly the part that performed a countermelody above the tenor or main melody.
Those women were altos – cultured, elegant, stylish women".
In the chorus of nineteen were six trebles from the Chapel Royal; the remainder, all men, were altos, tenors and basses.
Rudresh Mahanthappa and Bunky Green are alto saxophonists born 36 years apart.
The band is alto saxophone (John Zorn), bass (Bill Laswell) and drums (Hamid Drake).
Later, he would redeem himself with Bravo, which was Alto's word-processor and the basis for Microsoft Word.
Mr. Brown, whose main instrument was alto saxophone, was a key figure in the movement that came to be known as free jazz, an approach to improvisation that challenged conventional notions of harmony, rhythm, pitch and pretty much everything else.
"You were doing, altos, what humans tend to do unless instructed otherwise," he said.
The other soloists, good to excellent, were Daniel Taylor, alto; Marc Molomot, tenor; and Thomas Meglioranza and Curtis Streetman, basses.
The best saxophone to start out with is the alto once you have mastered the alto then you can move to harder saxophones.
Thus Goffredo had originally been an alto part, but in the 1717 revisions became a tenor; the Magician was transposed from alto castrato to bass, and Armida from soprano to contralto.
It is the Alto, not the Winfield.
