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
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
Andre Maurois
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
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
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
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.
Gerry Mulligan
The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.
Stan Getz
Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.
Gerry Mulligan
In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation.
Charles Lyell
I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, "Where have you been?" and I said right here for now on!
Jerome Richardson
You got to play the flute as a flute, like that. You can't play like a tenor concept on soprano; it sounds wrong. But some guys do it, and they think it's O.K., but not so!
Jerome Richardson
Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor.
Coleman Hawkins
You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.
Alfredo Kraus
I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.
Coleman Hawkins
Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.
Bobby Short
I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.
Bill Monroe
A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
Alec Guinness
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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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