tessitura
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian tessitura.
Pronunciation
Noun
tessitura (plural tessituras or tessiture)
- (music) The vocal range of a singer.
- 1995, Anthony Burgess, Byrne:
- 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.
- 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador 2007, p. 257:
- Anne's talented voice made the lines I had written swoop, howl, and whine through an authentically Thatcherite tessitura [...].
- 1995, Anthony Burgess, Byrne:
- (music) how a musical instrument sounds in different parts of its range
Translations
vocal range of a singer
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Italian
Etymology
tessere + -tura. Compare Spanish tejedura, Portuguese tecedura, Romanian țesătură, Friulian tiessidure.
Noun
tessitura f (plural tessiture)
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