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  2. Tenor - Wikipedia

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    A tenor is a type of male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types.It is the highest male chest voice type. [1] Composers typically write music for this voice in the range from the second B below middle C to the G above middle C (i.e. B 2 to G 4) in choral music, and from the second B flat below middle C to the C above middle C (B ♭ 2 to C 5) in ...

  3. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    The highest of the standard four voice ranges (bass, tenor, alto, soprano) sordina, sordine (plural) A mute. Note: sordina, with plural sordine, is strictly correct Italian, but the forms sordino and sordini are much more commonly used in music. Instruments can have their tone muted with wood, rubber, metal, or plastic devices (for string ...

  4. Vocal range - Wikipedia

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    Vocal range is the range of pitches that a human voice can phonate.A common application is within the context of singing, where it is used as a defining characteristic for classifying singing voices into voice types. [1]

  5. Musical note - Wikipedia

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    Notes in it include a prime symbol below the note's letter. Names of subsequent lower octaves are preceded with "sub". Notes in each include an additional prime symbol below the note's letter. The octave starting at tenor C is called the "small" octave. Notes in it are written as lower case letters, so tenor C itself is written c in Helmholtz ...

  6. List of tenors in non-classical music - Wikipedia

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    The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C 3 (C one octave below middle C), to the high C (C 5). The low extreme for tenors is roughly A 2 (two octaves below middle C). At the highest extreme, some tenors can sing up to F one octave above middle C (F ...

  7. Musical notation - Wikipedia

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    In order, they are today: Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do ' (for the octave). The classic variation is: Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si Do '. The first Western system of functional names for the musical notes was introduced by Guido of Arezzo (c. 991 – after 1033), using the beginning syllables of the first six musical lines of the Latin hymn Ut queant laxis.

  8. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  9. Whistle register - Wikipedia

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    The whistle register is the highest phonational register, that in most singers begins above the soprano "high D" (D 6 or 1174.6 Hz) and extends to about an octave above (D 7 or 2349.3 Hz). It is created by using only the back of the vocal folds. The lower part of the whistle register may overlap the upper parts of the modal and falsetto ...