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/tɛsɪˈtʊəɹə/ · noun
(music) The most acceptable and comfortable vocal range for a singer or musical instrument; the range in which a given type of voice presents its best-sounding timbre..
Byrne shrugged. He started writing a bravura / Opera based on Cleopatra’s death, / Exploiting all Maria’s tessitura, / With a high F before her final breath.
Anne's talented voice made the lines I had written swoop, howl, and whine through an authentically Thatcherite tessitura [...].
In classical voice training, and in the world of classical singing, voices are divided into categories dependent on timbre or tonal colour and tessitura or comfortable average pitch range.
Use tessitura when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tessitura means (music) The most acceptable and comfortable vocal range for a singer or musical instrument; the range in which a given type of voice presents its best-sounding timbre..
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Byrne shrugged. He started writing a bravura / Opera based on Cleopatra’s death, / Exploiting all Maria’s tessitura, / With a high F before her final breath.
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