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

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..

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..

Contratenor :: Contratenor (n.) Counter tenor; contralto.

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

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

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

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

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..

Contraindicate :: Contraindicate (v. t.) To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require..

Corno Di Bassetto :: Corno di bassetto () A tenor clarinet; -- called also basset horn, and sometimes confounded with the English horn, which is a tenor oboe..

Counter :: Counter (adv.) Same as Contra. Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to counter tenor..

Tenor :: Tenor (n.) 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..

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..

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..

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

Sing :: Sing (v. i.) To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece..

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

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

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