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Contratenor

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Con´tra`ten`or
n.1.(Mus.) Counter tenor; contralto.


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Section one commences with a duet for the two higher voices (superius and contratenor altus) lasting twenty-eight breves (transcribed as twenty-eight measures in the modern standard edition); the lower two voices (tenor I and tenor II) then enter and support the upper voices for a period of time equal to the opening duet (twenty-eight measures).
 
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