Eksempler på alto

• Originally, he had used the standard four vocal soloists - soprano, alto, tenor, bass - but he recast the bass part for baritone, as magnificently sung here.

• In the chorus's second half, though, the singer sinks back to her low alto, and the sovereign pedal returns.

• In this harmonically very unpretentious movement the composer achieves genuine poetry through understatement and delicate sculpting, especially of the sinuous line for solo alto.

• This is represented by bass, tenor and alto duets, respectively.

• Then come a pair of two-bar interludes, respectively for two sopranos and two altos.

• The alto part, however, reveals none of these symptoms.

• Although only a bass line is given, there are blank staves with clefs for three upper voices, two soprano and one alto.

• From this he went to chorales; first he added the basses to them himself, and they had to invent the alto and tenor.