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Within choral and pop music, singers are classified into voice parts based almost solely on vocal range with little consideration for other qualities in the voice.

Within classical solo singing, however, a person is classified as a tenor through the identification of several vocal traits, including range, vocal timbre, vocal weight, vocal tessitura, vocal resonance, and vocal transition points ( lifts or " passaggio ") within the singer's voice.

These different traits are used to identify different sub-types within the tenor voice sometimes referred to as fächer ( sg.

fach, from German Fach or Stimmfach, " vocal category ").

Within opera, particular roles are written with specific kinds of tenor voices in mind, causing certain roles to be associated with certain kinds of voices.