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Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Alto primo

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68981Complete Encyclopaedia of Music — Alto primoJohn Weeks Moore

Alto primo. (I.) The alto primo is the first, or upper, alto. This expression is used in music containing more than one alto, and is set at the beginning of the score, and upon the staff of that part, to distinguish it from the alto secondo, or under alto.