In polyphonic compositions of the 14th and early 15th centuries, the contratenor was a voice part added to the basic two-part contrapuntal texture of discant ( superius ) and tenor ( from the Latin tenere which means to hold, since this part " held " the music's melody, while the superius descanted upon it at a higher pitch ).

As soon as the chant uses ligatures, the tenor becomes modal and it will have become discant, which is the second form.

However, in the largest compilation of Notre Dame repertoires ( F ) no less than 462 clausulae exist, many recurrences of the same clausulae ( Domino, et gaudebit in variant settings, according to Waite ' written in a variety of styles and with varying competence ' A further innovation was the motellus, to be found in W2, in which the upper part of a discant section is supplied with a new text, so that when the tenor utters a single syllable of chant, the upper part will pronounce several syllables or words.

These settings are often punctuated with passages in discant style, where both the tenor and upper voice move in modal rhythms, often the tenor part in mode 5 ( two long notes ) and the upper part in mode 1 ( a long then short note ).

Szavolcsi notes the author of the Sándor Codex ( early 16th century ), who described secular music as accompanied by " fiddle, lute, drums and cimbalom ... and used tenor, discant and contratenor " singers, meaning it was in the style of the motet.

This changed the tenor of Briarcliffe by moving it from a retirement community to a third ( less-expensive ) alternative to the Pine Lakes and Dunes sections, all of which offered a place to rear a family close to, but not in, the increasing tawdriness of Myrtle Beach itself.

Originally these choirs where formed as the tenor and bass sections of chapel choirs, and embraced the popular secular hymns of the day.

The arrangement has two solo sections ; a " tenor fight " solo — in the most famous recording, between Tex Beneke and Al Klink — and a 16-bar trumpet solo.

Lesh's high tenor voice contributed to the Grateful Dead's four-part harmony sections in their group vocals in the early days of the band, until he relinquished singing high parts to Donna Godchaux.

The Creation is set for three vocal soloists ( soprano, tenor, and bass, with an incidental solo for alto in the finale ), four-part chorus ( soprano, alto, tenor, bass ), and a large Classical orchestra consisting of 3 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, alto, tenor, and bass trombones, timpani, and the usual string sections of first and second violins, violas, cellos, and double basses.

The treble and tenor sections are usually mixed, with men and women singing the notes an octave apart.

These secular hymns were embraced by the emerging male voice choirs, which formed originally as the tenor and bass sections of chapel choirs, but also sang outside the church in a from of recreation and fellowship.

It is also widely known the HBCU percussion sections used both multiple and single head tenor drums.

In addition to these other groups, the Lancaster Men's Choir consists of the combined tenor and bass sections of both Mixed Choir and Concert Choir.

A unique feature of the gymanfa ganu is the seating separation of alto, soprano, tenor, and bass singers into sections for the four part harmony singing.

The primary ( military band ) saxophone family alternates instruments in B and E. The other (" orchestral ') family patented by Sax, alternating instruments in C and F, has always been marginal, although some manufacturers tried to popularise the soprano in C ( or C soprano saxophone ), the alto in F ( or mezzo-soprano saxophone ), and the tenor in C ( or C melody saxophone ) early in the twentieth century.

Gilbert, a popular silent film actor best known for his work opposite Garbo, possessed a pleasant tenor speaking voice which didn't always match his heroic, dashing screen image.

Though strictly not musical, the Muslim call to prayer ( azan ) is always chanted by tenors, possibly due to the highly placed resonance of the tenor voice which allows it to be heard from a longer distance than baritones or basses during pre-amplification times.

Non-singers are always welcome to attend a singing, but typically they sit among the singers in the back rows of the tenor section, rather than in any particular designated audience location.

The corresponding term for the male lead ( almost always a tenor ) is " primo uomo.

I did not really intend becoming a tenor player, though I always liked tenor.

Beethoven had always used the trombone as an effect, and therefore very sparingly, or, in the case of Beethoven ’ s Ninth Symphony, also to double the alto, tenor, and bass parts of the chorus as was common in sacred music and opera at the time.

This arrangement is ideal for right-handed players and is almost always the arrangement in lines that consist of more than one tenor player for uniformity.

The late Sir Maliki Showman, the famous Nigerian tenor saxophonist who played with Rex Lawson, Bobby Benson and Victor Uwaifo, remembers Lawson as always placing music over money.

Basszink ) pitched a 4th or 5th below the tenor, is described by Mersenne, but it was also known in Germany, where it is listed in many inventories from the last decades of the 16th century.

As in some of his other symphonies ( particularly his 5th, 6th symphonies ), Mahler's interest in unconventional instruments in the orchestra is clearly shown in the scoring in this work, with usage of a tenor horn, cowbells, mandolin, and guitar.

The work is scored for 5 flutes ( 5th doubling piccolo ), 4 oboes, cor anglais, 3 bassoons, and contrabassoon ; 4 horns in F, piccolo trumpet, 4 trumpets in C, 3 trombones, and tuba ; timpani, bass drum, 2 pianos, and harp ; cellos and contrabasses ; and a four-part chorus ( soprano, alto, tenor, bass ).

" In songs such as " Pride & Joy ", Gaye used three different vocal ranges for the song, singing in his baritone range at the beginning, bringing a lighter tenor in the verses before reaching a gospel mode in the chorus.

Register describes the choices made by the user, choices which depend on three variables: field (" what the participants ... are actually engaged in doing ", for instance, discussing a specific subject or topic ), tenor ( who is taking part in the exchange ) and mode ( the use to which the language is being put ).

M. A. K Halliday and R. Hasan ( 1976 ) interpret ' register ' as ' the linguistic features which are typically associated with a configuration of situational features – with particular values of the field, mode and tenor ...'.

' These three values – field, mode and tenor – are thus the determining factors for the linguistic features of the text.

Diatype is usually analysed in terms of field, the subject matter or setting ; tenor, the participants and their relationships ; and mode, the channel of communication, such as spoken, written or signed.

The fifth mode normally occurs in groups of three and is used only in the lowest voice ( or tenor ), whereas the sixth mode is most often found in an upper part ( Hughes 1954a, 320 ).

Each mode has its own associated psalm tone, whose primary pitch is variously called the dominant, tenor, or tuba.

There is situational coherence when field, tenor, and mode can be identified for a certain group of clauses.

The three aspects of the context are known as field, tenor and mode.

The tenor lead, Franco Corelli, and La Scala cast under Maestro Tullio Serafin are all first rate.

It entailed the recruitment of clerical scholars from Mercia, Wales and abroad to enhance the tenor of the court and of the episcopacy ; the establishment of a court school to educate his own children, the sons of his nobles, and intellectually promising boys of lesser birth ; an attempt to require literacy in those who held offices of authority ; a series of translations into the vernacular of Latin works the king deemed " most necessary for all men to know "; the compilation of a chronicle detailing the rise of Alfred's kingdom and house ; and the issuance of a law code that presented the West Saxons as a new people of Israel and their king as a just and divinely inspired law-giver.

This family includes all of the modern brass instruments except the trombone: the trumpet, horn ( also called the French horn ), euphonium, and tuba, as well as the cornet, flügelhorn, tenor horn ( alto horn ), baritone horn, sousaphone, mellophone, and the old saxhorn.

The impressionists exaggerated his stiffness, raised shoulders, and nasal tenor phrasing, along with some of his commonly used introductions, such as " And now, right here on our stage ...", " For all you youngsters out there ...", and " a really big shew " ( his pronunciation of the word " show ").

Similar passages include, for example, Exodus 17: 14, " And YHWH said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven ;" Exodus 24: 4, " And Moses wrote all the words of YHWH, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel ;" Exodus 34: 27, " And Yahweh said unto Moses, Write thou these words, for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel ;" and " These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the LORD established on Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses.

" Among those included were the previous decrees placing various heliocentric works on the Index ("... which we will should be considered as though it were inserted in these presents, together with all, and singular, the things contained therein ...") and using his Apostolic authority he bound the faithful to its contents ("... and approve with Apostolic authority by the tenor of these presents, and: command and enjoin all persons everywhere to yield this Index a constant and complete obedience ...") Subsequent to Alexander VII's pontificate, the Index underwent a number of revisions.

Trombone music, along with music for euphonium and tuba, is typically written in concert pitch, although exceptions do occur, notably in almost all brass band music where tenor trombone is presented as a B transposing instrument.

Other films shot in widescreen were the musical Happy Days ( 1929 ) which premiered at the Roxy Theater, New York City, on February 13, 1930, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell and a 12 year old Betty Grable as a chorus girl ; Song o ’ My Heart, a musical feature starring Irish tenor John McCormack and directed by Frank Borzage ( Seventh Heaven, A Farewell to Arms ), which was shipped from the labs on March 17, 1930, but never released and may no longer survive, according to film historian Miles Kreuger ( the 35mm version, however, debuted in New York on March 11, 1930 ); and the western The Big Trail ( 1930 ) starring John Wayne and Tyrone Power, Sr. which premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on October 2, 1930, all of which were also made in the 70mm Fox Grandeur process.

The same year he visited Rome and compelled Paul to write to Pepin asking him to concede all the Lombard Direct claims except that to Imola ; another letter of exactly opposite tenor was sent by the same messenger.

The cornett was, like almost all Renaissance and Baroque instruments, made in a complete family ; the different sizes being the high cornettino, the cornett ( or curved cornett ), the tenor cornett ( or lizard ) and the rare bass cornett.

With the exception of the bass trombone, all of the instruments in United Kingdom brass band music ( including cornet, flugelhorn, tenor horn, euphonium, baritone horn, tenor trombone, and even the bass tuba ) are notated in treble clef as transposing instruments in either B or E.

) Spinto tenors have a darker timbre than a lyric tenor, without having a vocal color as dark as many ( not all ) dramatic tenors.

At the end of the Dies irae, the tenor sings ( from Owen's " Futility ") " O what, what made fatuous sunbeams toil, to break earth's sleep at all?

The tenor was recast in 1874 and Eayre & Smith Ltd. rehung all the bells in 1958.

The double CD from EMI called O Sole Mio ranks as one of the best collections of this style of music, his version of Mamma still stands the test of time and no one sings Santa Lucia like he does with all the power of a true opera tenor coupled to a rapier-like sweet falsetto.

His father was an accomplished musician, arranger, composer and played and taught all reed instruments with emphasis on jazz tenor saxophone ; his mother was a big band singer.

His ' Eastern ' influences are clearly audible in all of these recordings, with spots for instruments like the rahab, shanai, arghul, koto and a collection of Chinese wooden flutes and bells along with his tenor and flute.

It is instead found in brass bands, concert bands, and is a fixture of British brass bands ( under the name tenor horn ), in all of which it often plays a role similar to that of the orchestral horn in the symphony orchestra.

It is possible to double all the voices apart from the first tenor.

The High Contracting Parties take note of the fact that Her Royal Highness the Princess Victoria Eugénie Julia Ena, according to the due tenor of the law of England, forfeits for ever all hereditary rights of succession to the Crown and Government of Great Britain ...

Fitzbattleaxe is concerned that the fervour of his love has affected his singing voice (" A tenor, all singers above ").

" and " A tenor, all singers above " ( Fitz.