Children's choir

A children's choir is a choir composed of children who pubescent voice changes have not yet gone through. Especially with guys this is a big difference: their voice usually subsides at puberty with octave or more, but also girls get a different voice when mature.

A child's voice has a considerably smaller size than an adult male or female voice. One distinguishes soprano, size about c 'e' and alto , ac magnitude. " Moreover, one can usually expect children that they can control complicated polyphonic choral parts. This means that a composer who writes a children is limited in its capabilities. The English choral tradition and the choirs go elsewhere to work in this tradition, however, prove that children indeed polyphonic music can learn and sing.

A children's choir consisting of boys only called a boys' choir . A very different type of singing for children provided the AJC and the National Youth Storm . Today the mostly music societies without a clear ideological.

Gustav Mahler writes in his Third Symphony for a boys. The Dutch composer Richard Hol wrote a children's cantata.

Well-known Dutch children's choirs, are the keys Leiden , the Damrakkertjes and Children for Children, as well as a number of church, well-trained boys choirs ; qv.