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How to pronounce “tenor”
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Pronunciation guide for tenor
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of tenor with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Vintage Saxophones
to tenor, to baritone, to bass, to contrabass.
- Definition summary
- (music) A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto.
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How to pronounce tenor
Vintage Saxophones
to tenor, to baritone, to bass, to contrabass.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “tenor”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (music) A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto.
- A person, instrument, or group that performs in the tenor (higher than bass and lower than alto) range.
- (archaic, music) A musical part or section that holds or performs the main melody, as opposed to the contratenor bassus and contratenor altus, who perform countermelodies.
- The lowest tuned in a ring of bells.
- Tone, as of a conversation.
- (obsolete) duration; continuance; a state of holding on in a continuous course; general tendency; career.
- (linguistics) The subject in a metaphor to which attributes are ascribed.
- (finance) Time to maturity of a bond.
- Stamp; character; nature.
- (law) 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.
- That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
- (colloquial, music) A tenor saxophone.
- [Adjective]
- Of or pertaining to the tenor part or range.
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