tenorizeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From tenor +‎ -ize.

動詞

tenorize (third-person singular simple present tenorizes, present participle tenorizing, simple past and past participle tenorized)

1. (intransitive) To sing tenor.
   • 1922 August 1, “London Concerts”, in The Musical Times:

     Mr. Alfred O'Shea, a tenorizing youth from Australia, sang several times at Queen's Hall, and may congratulate himself on being one of the 'catches' of the season. He sang airs from Italian and French operas, and also a number of Irish ditties—naturally, with a name like that and such an ingratiating McCormackian voice.

   • 1969 April, “Hempstead ROXY Opens”, in Marquee:

     A "Study In Blue" unfolded in three parts, starting with the ROXY Jazzmanians doing a swinging "Birth of the Blues" and William Robyn tenorized under "Blue Skies" to be followed by the popular "Rhapsody In Blue" […]

   • 1995, Gramophone:

     It is certainly interesting to hear how he will occasionally ‘tenorize‘ while usually keeping to his normal baritone production.

2. (transitive) To sing (something) in a tenor register.
   • 1929 February, British Musician and Musical News:

     He has that rich, thrillingly masculine voice of which we can hardly ever tire. He has to tenorise (let the impossible word pass) his top notes a trifle, but his art is so good that one hardly notices this after the first occasion.

   • 1929 February 2, Elias E. Sugarman, “The Palace, New York”, in Billboard:

     Allan Prior, with pipes functioning on all six, tenorized a conglomeration of semi-classical and show bits.

3. (transitive) To convert a piece for tenor.
   • 1892, William Pitt Burne, Gossip of the Century, volume 2, page 33:

     A curious experiment was tried with the music of Don Giovanni in order to enable Nourrit to sing in that beautiful opera. The music allotted to the Don was all tenorized; but this scheme was not happy in its results . It is very doubtful whether any music can safely be transposed from the key in which it was first inspired

   • 2000, Mozart-Jahrbuch:

     probably intended as a sequel to the tenorized, masculinized version of »Misera! dove son«

4. (transitive) To use (a voice, performer) as a tenor.
   • 1918 September 26, Musical Courier:

     Mr. Fanning should not be so angry about being "tenorized," for he has such an extended upper range that he might conceivably deceive a public who did not know him.

   • 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 192:

     The great chazzanim, with the exception of very few, were tenors; or, if baritones, they "tenorized" their voices.

   • 1934, Clara Leiser, Jean de Reszke and the Great Days of Opera:

     If he has really been able to tenorize [ténoriser] his voice, one can predict he will appear as an accomplished artist