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A cet égard, on distingue génériquement les voix en deux classes, sçavoir; voix aiguës ou féminines, & voix graves ou masculines, & l'on a trouvé que la différence générale des unes & des autres, étoit à-peu-près d'une octave, ce qui fait que les voix aiguës chantent réellement à l'octave des voix graves, quand elles paroissent chanter à leur unisson.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: champion of among other things, mezzos! Celeste Winant 2008
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Although there is no indication of an accompaniment, a singer would likely have accompanied himself or herself on a lyre or other plucked string instrument, perhaps playing the melody in unisson or sounding the "a", "e" or other prominent notes.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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