Boy soprano

Voice type
Female
Male

A male soprano (British[1][2] and especially North American English)[3] or boy treble (only British English)[4] is a young male singer with a voice in the soprano range, a range that is often still called the treble voice range (in North America too) no matter how old.

  1. ^ "Male soprano definition and meaning - Collins English Dictionary". www.collinsdictionary.com. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
  2. ^ "BBC Bitesize - GCSE Music - Music for voices". Archived from the original on 7 June 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  3. ^ Harvard Dictionary of Music, p.796 and 904
  4. ^ Due to the tradition of not using girls in church choirs, boy sopranos are often still simply called "trebles" even when the gender of the singers is not mentioned, but girls with high voices are trebles too. Even the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music makes this mistake on p. 689 (A boy soprano is known as a treble.) though it points out on p. 746 that all children with high voices are known as trebles.