contralto

type of classical female singing voice
Event voice_type Q37137
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contralto

Summary

contralto is a voice type[1]. contralto ranks in the top 7% of voice_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,053 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • contralto's instance of is recorded as voice type[3].
  • contralto's instance of is recorded as Fach[4].
  • contralto's instance of is recorded as musical style[5].
  • contralto's GND ID is recorded as 4367366-1[6].
  • contralto's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2001005070[7].
  • contralto's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 125240716[8].
  • contralto's subclass of is recorded as voice[9].
  • contralto's subclass of is recorded as female voice[10].
  • contralto's subclass of is recorded as alto[11].
  • contralto's Commons category is recorded as Contralto vocalists[12].
  • contralto's Commons category is recorded as Contraltos[13].
  • contralto's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 45631[14].
  • contralto's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0l14wj[15].
  • contralto's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph1204995[16].
  • contralto's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Contraltos[17].
  • contralto's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX5824367[18].
  • contralto's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 783.68[19].
  • contralto's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 782.0092[20].
  • contralto's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 782.1092[21].
  • contralto's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1005852[22].
  • contralto's described by source is recorded as Riemann's Music Dictionary[23].
  • contralto's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedic Lexicon[24].
  • contralto's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[25].
  • contralto's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[26].
  • contralto's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000145780[27].

Why It Matters

contralto ranks in the top 7% of voice_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,053 views/month).[2] contralto has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] contralto is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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