Tessitura

Quick meaning: Tessitura is a noun meaning (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.

Meaning

(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.

Example Sentences

Anne's talented voice made the lines I had written swoop, howl, and whine through an authentically Thatcherite tessitura [...].

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.

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.

Word Forms

• tessituras
• tessiture

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include intonation, fioriture, coloratura, touch, colorature, fioritura.

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