Meaning of tessitura | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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