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LONDON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- A British composer says he is searching for a singer who can hit a note in his new work so low it is believed never to have been sung before.
In his new choral work "De Profundis," Paul Mealor has included a low E that is more than two octaves below middle C.
A search will be made via trade magazines and online for a voice that can reach the note written six semitones below the lowest note found in a mainstream choral work, a B flat in Rachmaninov's Vespers.
The Guinness Book of Records lists the deepest note ever produced by a human voice as an extremely low F sharp.
"My setting of De Profundis calls for a rich and powerful voice; a voice that can not only touch the heart with its sincerity and truth, but also make every fabric of the human body resonate as it plunges into the very lowest parts of the vocal spectrum," Mealor told the BBC Thursday.
Mealor was handpicked by Prince William and Kate Middleton to write the music for their wedding last year.
"De Profundis" will be Mealor's first choral work since the wedding.
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