Definition of Tenor

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Definition of Tenor

Tenor

A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.

That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.

Stamp; character; nature.

An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument.

The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary.

A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it.

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Tenor Quotations

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
Van Morrison

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
Andre Maurois

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.
Luciano Pavarotti

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.
Steve Lacy

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.
Placido Domingo

Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.
Billy Eckstine

The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.
Gerry Mulligan

They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.
Dominic Chianese

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.
Gerry Mulligan

Tenor Translations

tenor in Dutch is tenorstem, tenor
tenor in French is teneur
tenor in Swedish is lydelse, mening, riktning, tenor

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