Vocal range is never used to refer to a solo vocalist. Children's voices, both male and female, are described as "trebles", although boy soprano is widely used as well. Vocal range Vocal range is the measure of the breadth of pitches that a human voice can phonate. Its most common application is within the context of singing, where it is used as a defining characteristic for classifying singing voices into groups known as voice types. It is also a topic of study within linguistics, phonetics, and speech and language pathology, particularly in relation to the study of tonal languages and certain types
Range (music) Range (music) In music, the range, or chromatic range, of a musical instrument is the distance from the lowest to the highest pitch it can play. For a singing voice, the equivalent is "vocal range". The range of a musical part is the distance between its lowest and highest note. Among British English speakers, and perhaps others, compass means the same thing as chromatic range—the interval between the lowest and highest note attainable by a voice or musical instrument. The terms sounding range, written range, designated range, duration range and dynamic range have specific meanings. The sounding range refers to