Countertenor

Japanese: カウンター・テナー(英語表記)counter‐tenor
Countertenor
A male alto singer. In the mid-15th century, the contratenor altus (contra means "against" in Latin, and refers to a higher voice compared to the tenor) and the contratenor bassus (a lower voice compared to the tenor) were added to the cantus melody (tenor), establishing the four-part system that would become the basis of later music, and a lot of polyphonic church music was composed. However, since women's voices were not used in churches, the contratenor altus part was sung by a male falsetto, and in England such singers were called countertenors.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
男性アルト歌手。15世紀中ごろ定旋律(テノール)に対してコントラテノール・アルトゥスcontratenor altus(contraはラテン語で〈…に対する〉の意味で,テノールに対して高い声部をいう)とコントラテノール・バッススcontratenor bassus(テノールに対して低い声部)が付加され後世の音楽で基本となる4声部書法が確立し,ポリフォニックな教会音楽が多く作曲された。しかし教会では女声が使われなかったため,コントラテノール・アルトゥスの声部は男声のファルセットによって歌われ,イギリスではその歌手をカウンター・テナーと呼んだ。

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