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highest natural adult male singing voice a. : the highest natural adult male singing voice. also : a person having this voice. b. : the voice part next to the lowest in a 4-part chorus.

In choral music In SATB four-part mixed chorus, the tenor is the second lowest vocal range, above the bass and below the alto and soprano.

Sound that you open up to but you'll keep that nasal bass. Another key thing that tenors need to learn how to do is to sing in the head voice.

The word Tenor comes from the latin tenere, which means "to hold". In medieval polyphonic music, it was the voice that would sustain the fundamental line of the song, the cantus firmus. By the sixteenth century, the “tenor” would be any voice carrying the cantus firmus.

The tenor is a classical voice type with the highest pitch range within the four choral voice types (soprano, alto, tenor, bass). The four male voice types from lowest to highest are bass, baritone, tenor, and countertenor (often considered a ''male alto''). In opera, there are many different subtypes of tenor voices.

Some common synonyms of tenor are current, drift, tendency, and trend. While all these words mean "movement in a particular direction," tenor stresses a clearly perceptible direction and a continuous, undeviating course. the tenor of the times.

Tenor Clef is a “C” clef that is placed on the 4th line from the bottom of the staff. The line going through the center of the clef (4th line) is a Flick C (C4) which would be located one ledger line above the staff in bass clef.

What are some examples of a tenor voice? Some well-known tenors in classical music and opera include Andrea Bocelli, Luciano Pavarotti, and Plácido Domingo.

Four types of tenor

• Tenors in opera frequently take the leading male role; they are said to always get the girl - on and off stage! The tenor's vocal range goes from the C below middle C to the C above middle C.
• What's a tenor?
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A tenor in music refers to the voice type as well as its vocal pitch range. In operatic vocal music music, the tenor voice is used often as the leading male role. There are many famous examples of the tenor voice in operatic roles, including Tamino from the Magic Flute by Mozart, or Florestan from Fidelio by Beethoven.

Tenor instruments: trombone, euphonium, tenor violin, tenor flute, basset horn, tenor saxophone, tenoroon, tenor recorder, bass flute. Baritone instruments: cello, baritone horn, bass clarinet, bassoon, baritone saxophone.

A contralto's vocal range is almost identical to that of a countertenor, while a woman who sings lower still might be called contralto profundo, equivalent to a male tenor, or even contralto basso, equivalent to a baritone, but all these distinctions are full of variation.