What are the voice types, and what are their ranges?

Classical singing names six main voice types: soprano, mezzo-soprano and contralto, usually sung by women, and tenor, baritone and bass, by men. Soprano is the highest, roughly C4 to C6, bright and light at the top. Mezzo-soprano sits a third lower, about A3 to A5, with a darker middle. Contralto is the lowest female voice, about F3 to F5, and is rare. Tenor runs about C3 to C5 and is the highest common male voice. Baritone, about G2 to G4, is the most common male voice. Bass is the lowest, about E2 to E4. The ranges overlap, and a type is decided as much by where a voice sits comfortably and by its colour as by its highest and lowest notes. Pop and musical theatre singers use the same names loosely, to mean which octave a song suits.

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