Low B flat, the lowest tone in music that is not just a grunt, is sounded in orchestras by the contrabassoon or the contrabass tuba. Beethoven used the big woodwind in his Ninth Symphony. Haydn in his ...

From jaw-dropping low notes to whistle-register highs, these vocalists pushed the human voice to astonishing extremes across genres and generations. Vocal range has long been one of the most ...