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Tenor meaning
A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto. | A person, instrument, or group that performs in the tenor (higher than bass and lower than alto) range. | A musical part or section that holds or performs the main melody, as opposed to the contratenor bassus and contratenor altus, who perform countermelodies.
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Example sentences (20)
He also shows the different "registers" of consort possible, 2′ (discant, alt, and tenor), 4′ (alt, tenor, and basset), and 8′ (tenor, basset, and bass).
Tenor banjo Four-string banjo Irish tenor banjo from Gold Tone The shorter-necked, tenor banjo, with 17 ("short scale") or 19 frets, is also typically played with a plectrum.
He performed three pieces for GPAC, “Bagr Bine” for West African Gyil, as taught by Bernard Woma; “Be Thou My Vision” for solo tenor pan, arranged by Chad Floyd; and “Amazing Grace” for solo tenor pan, arranged by Chad Floyd.
Series VII and VIII are cumulative options, having a tenor of 3 and 5 years respectively, where face value and interest accrued are paid at the end of the tenor and will be redeemed at Rs.
Agricola also calls the tenor "altus," mistakenly depicting it as a little smaller than the tenor in the woodcut (above, middle right).
All of the "modern" instrument names represent exceedingly rare instruments with the exception of the E Tenor/Alto (unless one counts, controversially, the baritone horn as the B Tenor/Baritone member of the family).
As the true tenor clef has fallen into disuse in vocal writings, this "octave-dropped" treble clef is often called the tenor clef.
In the previous example, "the world" is compared to a stage, describing it with the attributes of "the stage"; "the world" is the tenor, and "a stage" is the vehicle; "men and women" is the secondary tenor, and "players" is the secondary vehicle.
Tenor voice is notated in bass clef where the tenor and bass are written on the same stave.
The tenor guitar can also be tuned like a soprano, concert, or tenor ukulele, using versions of GCEA tuning.
This is no mere coincidence, for brass bands used to employ a section of alto, tenor and bass trombones in the early to mid-19th century, later replacing the alto with a tenor trombone, all the while notated in the corresponding clefs.
Aaron Blake, another tenor, also threatened to steal the show when he opened the fourth and final act as a smoothly elegant Garter King of Arms.
A document highlighted the implications of the extension of the tenor of 2022 Supplementary Act.
Any potential violence spurred by Trump’s comments could change the tenor of reaction.
As Fixed Deposit interest rates have gone up in recent times, it becomes a natural question for depositors, especially senior citizens, as to what will be the ideal tenor for them to invest in FD.
At one point the tenor Joshua Ellicott left the stage, and one wondered if he too was trying to help.
Born in Paris into a Christian Armenian family that prized culture, the young tenor learned basic Yiddish while growing up in the city’s Jewish quarter.
Both Aldous Huxley (experimenting with mescaline) and Robert Graves (mushrooms) quoted Wordsworth’s poetry to convey the tenor of their experiences.
From the two-year tenor all the way to 30-year, U.S. yields are below the current Fed funds rate of roughly 4.8 percent as markets have dramatically repriced the rates outlook.
He’s engagingly sung by tenor Elgan Llŷr Thomas, making his Opera North debut.