Tessituraとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /tɛsɪˈtʊəɹə/
• 韻: -ʊəɹə

名詞

tessitura (複数形 tessituras または tessiture)

1. (music) The most acceptable and comfortable vocal range for a singer or musical instrument; the range in which a given type of voice presents its best-sounding timbre.

   Coordinate term: compass

   Hyponyms: soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, counter tenor, tenor, baritone, bass

   • 1995, Anthony Burgess, Byrne:

     Byrne shrugged. He started writing a bravura / Opera based on Cleopatra’s death, / Exploiting all Maria’s tessitura, / With a high F before her final breath.

   • 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador 2007, p. 257:

     Anne's talented voice made the lines I had written swoop, howl, and whine through an authentically Thatcherite tessitura [...].

   • 2014, Jane Streeton; Philip Raymond, Singing on Stage, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 146:

     In classical voice training, and in the world of classical singing, voices are divided into categories dependent on timbre or tonal colour and tessitura or comfortable average pitch range.