Ellen Beach Yaw (3,116 views)

[kaji]

Ellen Beach Yaw (14 September 1869 - 9 September 1947)
Voice Type: Coloratura Soprano
Vocal Range: C4-B♭6

Significant High Notes:

B♭6 ("Swiss Echo Song", "The Skylark")
G6 ("Charmant Oiseau")
F6 ("Air des clochettes", "Der Hölle Rache", "The Skylark")
E6 ("O Dolce Contento")
E♭6 ("Air des clochettes", "Air du Rossignol", "Mad Scene", "The Nightingale")
D6 ("Charmant Oiseau", "Der Hölle Rache")
C♯6 ("Le chant du rossignol", "O Dolce Contento")
C6 ("Air du Rossignol", "Charmant Oiseau", "Der Hölle Rache", "Mad Scene", "Polonaise", "The Nightingale", "The Skylark", "The Star Spangled Banner")
B5 ("Charmant Oiseau", "Le chant du rossignol", "L'Eclat de rire", "O Dolce Contento", "Swiss Echo Song")
B♭5 ("Air des clochettes", "Cadenza", "Der Hölle Rache", "Mad Scene")
A5 ("Air des clochettes", "C'est l'histoire amoureuse", "Polonaise", "Spring's Invitation", "Swiss Echo Song")
G♯5 ("Air du Rossignol", "L'amerò, sarò costante", "Le chant du rossignol", "L'Eclat de rire", "O Dolce Contento", "The Nightingale")
G5 ("Air du Rossignol", "Charmant Oiseau", "Le Bonheur est chose légère", "Swiss Echo Song", "The Skylark", "The Star Spangled Banner")
F♯5 ("Cadenza", "Swiss Echo Song")
F5 ("L'amerò, sarò costante", "Polonaise", "The Skylark", "The Star Spangled Banner")

Significant Low Notes:

E4 ("Le chant du rossignol", "L'Eclat de rire", "O Dolce Contento")
E♭4 ("Air du Rossignol", "L'amerò, sarò costante", "Mad Scene", "The Nightingale")
D4 ("Air des clochettes", "C'est l'histoire amoureuse", "Charmant Oiseau", "Le Bonheur est chose légère", "Mad Scene", "Swiss Echo Song", "The Skylark")
C4 ("Polonaise", "Spring's Invitation", "The Star Spangled Banner")
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Underlines marks notes found in harmonies and backing vocals.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Boldface marks notes that are considered to be particularly notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities.

[kaji]

As requested by rtim .

[elizabeth]

C4-Bb6 is the only correct vocal range. (also any links to those top notes?)

[rob]

Now that's an amazing upper range.

[glo]

She almost certainly has lower notes but they just aren’t available due to the past and all

[Deleted]

I was actually in the process of making a thread for her when I saw this. No problem though. I guess I’ll have to state my claims from now on…

[beethoven]

Ellen Beach Yaw does the famous high note that female singers usually do in the word "free" when they sing the Star Spangled Banner and did it decades before Whitney Houston was born (the reason why I'm mentioning Whitney Houston is that she was the one that made female singers do a high note in the word "free" a trend with her famous 1991 Super Bowl performance). Could Yaw be the first person to do that high note in a recording of the Star Spangled Banner?