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  2. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    High; often refers to a particular range of voice, higher than a tenor but lower than a soprano alzate sordini Lift or raise the mutes (i.e. remove mutes) am Steg (Ger.) At the bridge (i.e. playing a bowed string instrument near its bridge, which produces a heavier, stronger tone); see sul ponticello amabile Amiable, pleasant ambitus

  3. 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 ...

  4. Lovestruck - Wikipedia

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    [3] Half a century later, in 1971, Hans Loewald took up the theme, comparing being in analysis "to the passions and conflicts stirred up anew in the state of being in love which, from the point of view of the ordinary order and emotional tenor and discipline of life, feels like an illness, with all its deliciousness and pain". [4]

  5. List of Italian musical terms used in English - Wikipedia

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    A tenor viol with no frets Viola da braccio: arm viola: A stringed instrument held in the arm, such as a violin or viola Viola da gamba: leg viola: A stringed instrument held between the legs Violoncello Violoncello was the original name for a cello. A large stringed instrument

  6. Canticle V: The Death of Saint Narcissus - Wikipedia

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    They are also all vocal works that include tenor parts written for Peter Pears and set non-biblical religious texts; Britten was the pianist in the premieres of the first four Canticles. [4] The first such work was possibly titled Canticle because it set a paraphrase of verses from the Song of Songs, sometimes referred to as the Canticles.

  7. Glossary of jazz and popular music - Wikipedia

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    tenor. The second-lowest of the standard four voice ranges (bass, tenor, alto, soprano). May refer to a tenor sax. ticky tack. A medium or high-pitched single note electric guitar figure, usually muted by some method or device to achieve a short and percussive note. A clean amp tone is most useful for the effect.

  8. Ashes to Ashes (David Bowie song) - Wikipedia

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    [3] The Guardian 's Alexis Petridis said the song represents a moment in his catalogue where "the correct response is to stand back and boggle in awe", because "everything about it – [its] lingering oddness of its sound, its constantly shifting melody and emotional tenor, its alternately self-mythologising and self-doubting lyrics – is ...

  9. Money note - Wikipedia

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    Created from a confluence of composition or improvisational and performance quality, this is usually at a climactic point of a song or aria, in which the singer's melody makes a large interval jump to the song's highest note (especially for female soprano singers or male tenor or countertenor singers) or falls to its lowest note (especially for ...