What is Treble (singer)?
{{no sources|date=November 2024}} The word '''treble''' is used, especially in British English, to mean the singing voice of a [[boy]] or [[girl]]. Often it is called '''boy alto''', but since there are also many girls who sing in [[cathedral choir|cathedral]] and [[church]] [[choir]]s these days, the word treble is now used to describe the voice of either [[gender|sex]]. A boy can sing treble forever. At puberty he starts to become a [[man]] and his voice range will go up (we say that his voice “breaks”). He will then become a alto, soprano or he may even train to be a [[countertenor]]. A girl’s voice also changes when she reaches puberty, but the change into a grown-up female voice is more gradual than with a boy, and it is still within the [[soprano]] or [[alto]] range. Boys who join a [[cathedral choir]] or the choir of a large [[church]] will have to work hard to develop their voice and learn to sing musically. They often start this training aged 7 or 8, and they may only have four or five years before their voice starts to break. They do not usually become famous as soloists, but the [[Wales|Welsh]] treble [[Aled Jones]] became very famous for about three years and made many recordings before his voice broke in 1987. The word ‘treble’ is used for children singing in a [[Classical Music]] style, especially church music. Although children do not usually sing in [[opera]], occasionally a treble is used for the part of a very small boy, e.g. in [[Claude Debussy|Debussy’s]] opera ''Pélléas et Mélisande''. [[Category:Vocal ranges]] {{stub}}