An American in Paris is scored for 3 flutes ( 3rd doubling on piccolo ), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in B flat, bass clarinet in B flat, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in B flat, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, triangle, wood block, cymbals, low and high tom-toms, xylophone, glockenspiel, celesta, 4 taxi horns resembling the pitches A, B, C and D, alto saxophone / soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, baritone saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, and strings.

They are also thought to have pioneered the modern alto format of viola, in contrast to older tenor violas, but this stating is not correct since Gasparo made violas from altos of 39 to tenors of 44, 7 cm.

The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher.

It can also be written in tenor clef at concert pitch, which is usually done to prevent too many ledger lines in case it is a high part.

The series has been described as " the most essential to our understanding of the human condition in modern times, just as Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling is essential to understanding the tenor of the 16th century ".

The tenor guitar is tuned in fifths, C G D A, as is the tenor banjo and the cello.

It is generally accepted that the tenor guitar was created to allow a tenor banjo player to follow the fashion as it evolved from Dixieland Jazz towards the more progressive Jazz that featured guitar.

* M is for Man, Music, Mozart ( 1991 ) ( texts by the composer, Jeroen van der Linden, Peter Greenaway ) for female jazz voice, flute (+ piccolo ), soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, horn, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone, double bass, piano ( TV score ; may be performed as a concert work with one additional song )

The tenor is the subject to which attributes are ascribed.

In the previous example, " the world " is compared to a stage, describing it with the attributes of “ the stage ”; " the world " is the tenor, and " a stage " is the vehicle ; " men and women " is a secondary tenor, " players " is the secondary vehicle.

Mandel Bruce " Mandy " Patinkin (; born November 30, 1952 ) is an award-winning American actor of stage and screen and a tenor vocalist.

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.

On January 26, 1928, the National String Instrument Corporation was certified and, with its new factory located near a metal-stamping shop owned by Adolph Rickenbacher and staffed by some of the most experienced and competent craftsmen available, began to produce Spanish and Hawaiian style tri-cone guitars as well as four-string tenor guitars, mandolins and ukuleles.

Britten's interests as a composer were wide-ranging ; he produced important music in such varied genres as orchestral, choral, solo vocal ( much of it written for his life partner, tenor Peter Pears ), chamber and instrumental, as well as film music.

Of more lasting importance to Britten was his meeting in 1937 with the tenor Peter Pears, who was to become his musical collaborator and inspiration as well as his life partner.

The German equivalent of the Spinto fach is the Jugendlicher Heldentenor and encompasses many of the Dramatic tenor roles as well as some Wagner roles such as Lohengrin and Stolzing.

In early 20th century Italian band scores, parts for the B ♭ tenor, E ♭ baritone, and B ♭ bass sarrusophones as well as the contrabass are common.

Moreno is well known for his distinctive screams, as well as his soothing tenor voice while singing melodically.

However, the singer also possessed an extraordinarily extensive low range: " Navigante che non spera " in Leonardo Vinci's opera Il Medo ( 1728 ) takes him into what might well be described as the alien territory of C3, where a tenor would be more " at home ".

Produced by Paul Frankl, and presented by Ivan Hewett with research by Ruth Thomson, this feature was based on interviews with four who knew Kleiber well: tenor and conductor Plácido Domingo, music administrator and Intendant Sir Peter Jonas, music journalist and critic Christine Lemke-Matvey, and conductor – pianist Charles Barber.

Van's hearty baritone and Schenck's high tenor harmonized well, and the team became known as " the pennant-winning battery of songland.

Perhaps his most well known verse anthem is This is the record of John, which sets an Advent text for solo countertenor or tenor, alternating with full chorus.

The self portrait in bronze as well as the amazing bust of Louis XIV have been frequently debated over the last 100 years, but the general tenor is to accept them as originals by Daumier.

In the 20th century, composers have also written for more varied groups, with Anton Webern's Quartet, opus 22 ( 1930 ), for example, being for piano, violin, clarinet and tenor saxophone, and Paul Hindemith's quartet ( 1938 ) as well as Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps ( 1940 ) both for piano, violin, cello and clarinet.

The earliest examples of this style dating from around 1020-1050 ( the Micrologus of Guido d ' Arezzo and the Winchester Troper ) utilise parallel motion and oblique motion ( upper voice moving while the tenor holds one note ), but the introduction of contrary motion ( voices moving in opposite directions ) as well as similar motion ( voices moving in the same direction, but to different intervals ) led to progressively freer musical lines — a prerequisite element of counterpoint.

Hamilton released Foreststorn in 2001 featuring Euphoria with Cary DeNigris on guitar, Paul Ramsey on bass, and a new two horn front line featuring Eric Lawrence on alto and soprano saxes and Evan Schwam on tenor sax, as well as special guest appearances from former band members Arthur Blythe, Steve Turre and his wife Akua Dixon, Eric Person, former Spin Doctors guitarist Eric Schenkman ( a student of Chico's ), Blues Traveler front man John Popper ( also a student of Chico's ), and Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones.

The recorder of this event, the composer and tenor Michael Kelly, stated that they played well but the performance was not outstanding.

* Damien O ' Kane, who joined the band in 2008, plays banjo and tenor guitar as well as singing.

* Sancho Panza is a " character " in the tone poem Don Quixote by Richard Strauss, in which he is represented by the solo viola, as well as the tenor tuba and bass clarinet playing in unison.

Rosenthal proved to be as good lead singer as Starling and his baritone voice contrasted well with Duffey's high tenor extravaganzas.

One day he told a client that he was searching for a good singing teacher, and the client recommended Carl Martin Öhman, a well known Wagnerian tenor from the 1920s, who is also credited with discovering Jussi Björling.

They included Michael Brecker ( tenor sax ) and Randy Brecker ( trumpet )-who had played on the Remote album-as well as guitarist Mike Stern ( sidesman with Miles Davis ), drummer Danny Gottlieb ( Pat Metheny ) and saxophonist Tommy Smith.

He was also a voice actor for The Walt Disney Company, well known for his distinctive tenor voice, and is perhaps best remembered as the original voice of Walt Disney's Winnie the Pooh.

He played with other bop musicians Bud Powell and Eddie " Lockjaw " Davis, a fellow tenor with a distinctly tough tone in comparison to Stitt, in the 1950s and recorded a number of sides for Prestige Records label as well as albums for Argo, Verve and Roost.

He performs as a lyric baritone, though he has expressed a desire to move into the traditional register of the tenor.

The general tenor of the sutta is also similar to " Nullius in verba " — often translated as " Take no-one's word for it ", the motto of the Royal Society.

He was also at the same time gaining practical experience as a safe breaker and highwayman, and learning how to shoot to kill from a Neanderthal convicted murderer named Gene Geary, later committed to Chester Asylum as a homicidal maniac, but whose eyes misted with tears when the young Dion sang a ballad about an Irish mother in his clear and syrupy tenor.

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.

Pinafore relied on stock character types, many of which were familiar from European opera ( and some of which grew out of Gilbert's earlier association with the German Reeds ): the heroic protagonist ( tenor ) and his love-interest ( soprano ); the older woman with a secret or a sharp tongue ( contralto ); the baffled lyric baritone — the girl's father ; and a classic villain ( bass-baritone ).

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.

The tenor voice, from the Classical era onwards, has traditionally been assigned the role of male protagonist.

In between the bass and the tenor is the baritone, which also varies in weight from say, Guglielmo in Mozart's Così fan tutte to Posa in Verdi's Don Carlos ; the actual designation " baritone " was not used until the mid-19th century.

) This permitted a much narrower cabinet at the " nose " end of the piano, and optimized the transition from unwound tenor strings to the iron or copper-wrapped bass strings.

The particular choice and number of instruments derives from the registers of the human voice: soprano, alto, tenor and bass.

Cantus firmus mass uses the same monophonic melody, usually drawn from chant and usually in the tenor and most often in longer note values than the other voices.

Early Italian tenor viola da gamba, detail from the painting St. Cecilia, by Raphael, c. 1510.

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.

Two tenor arias from Leoncavallo's version are still occasionally performed, especially in Italy.

The tenor arias from La bohème remain recording favorites.

In 1904 for the Gramophone ( and Typewriter Company ) he accompanied the tenor Fernando De Lucia in L ' anima ho stanca from Adriana Lecouvreur and in the song Luntananza, an effort which critic Michael Henstock ( in his biography of De Lucia ) declares is hardly inspired by De Lucia's fine performances.

For example, among men, there are bass, baritone, tenor and countertenor ( ranging from E2 to even F6 ), and among women, contralto, mezzo-soprano and soprano ( ranging from F3 to C6 ).

Announcing that the two pieces would be separated by an " interlude " played by tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves, Ellington proceeded to lead the band through the two pieces, with Gonsalves ' 28-chorus marathon solo whipping the crowd into a frenzy, leading the Maestro to play way beyond the curfew time despite urgent pleas from Festive organizer George Wein to bring the program to an end.

35, for soprano, oboe, viola, and cello ( 1924 ), Mahnung an die Jugend, sich der Musik zu befleissigen ( from the Plöner Musiktage, 1932 ), and Ite angeli veloces for alto and tenor, mixed chorus, and orchestra, with audience participation ( 1953 – 55 ).

Igor Stravinsky composed a work titled simply Cantata in 1951 – 52, which used stanzas from the 15th-century " Lyke-wake Dirge " as a narrative frame for other anonymous English lyrics, and later designated A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer ( 1961 ) as " a cantata for alto and tenor soli, speaker, chorus, and orchestra ".

In the film, the last few lines of the song " Ol ' Man River " ( from Show Boat ) are sung by what sounds like a tenor, while the song was intended for bass Paul Robeson and sung in the original production by bass-baritone Jules Bledsoe.

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.

The bands are composed of instruments from high sopranos, through to lower soprano, tenor, baritone, and bass.