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Falsetto :: Falsetto (n.) A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice..

Canto :: Canto (n.) The highest vocal part; the air or melody in choral music; anciently the tenor, now the soprano..

Unity :: Unity (n.) In dramatic composition, one of the principles by which a uniform tenor of story and propriety of representation are preserved; conformity in a composition to these; in oratory, discourse, etc., the due subordination and reference of every part to the development of the leading idea or the eastablishment of the main proposition..

Violoncello :: Violoncello (n.) A stringed instrument of music; a bass viol of four strings, or a bass violin with long, large strings, giving sounds an octave lower than the viola, or tenor or alto violin..

Alto :: Alto (n.) Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor..

Bratsche :: Bratsche (n.) The tenor viola, or viola..

Register :: Register (v. i.) The compass of a voice or instrument; a specified portion of the compass of a voice, or a series of vocal tones of a given compass; as, the upper, middle, or lower register; the soprano register; the tenor register..

Trombone :: Trombone (n.) A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whos

Bassetto :: Bassetto (n.) A tenor or small bass viol.

Tenor :: Tenor (n.) Stamp; character; nature.

Baritone :: Baritone (n.) A male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise as high as the other..

Counter Tenor :: Counter tenor () One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor..

Mean :: Mean (n.) A part, whether alto or tenor, intermediate between the soprano and base; a middle part..

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song..

Univocal :: Univocal (n.) Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.

Tenor :: Tenor (n.) A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.

Thread :: Thread (n.) Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse..

Part :: Part (n.) One of the different melodies of a concerted composition, which heard in union compose its harmony; also, the music for each voice or instrument; as, the treble, tenor, or bass part; the violin part, etc..

Taille :: Taille (n.) The French name for the tenor voice or part; also, for the tenor viol or viola..

Uniformly :: Uniformly (adv.) In a uniform manner; without variation or diversity; by a regular, constant, or common ratio of change; with even tenor; as, a temper uniformly mild..

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