a settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life
<noun.cognition> nothing disturbed the even tenor of her ways
the general meaning or substance of an utterance
<noun.cognition> although I disagreed with him I could follow the tenor of his argument [ adj ]
(of a musical instrument) intermediate between alto and baritone or bass
<adj.all> a tenor sax
of or close in range to the highest natural adult male voice
<adj.all> tenor voice
Tenor \Ten"or\, n. [L., from tenere to hold; hence, properly, a holding on in a continued course: cf. F. teneur. See {Tenable}, and cf. {Tenor} a kind of voice.] 1. A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.
Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their away. --Gray.
2. That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
When it [the bond] is paid according to the tenor. --Shak.
Does not the whole tenor of the divine law positively require humility and meekness to all men? --Spart.
3. Stamp; character; nature.
This success would look like chance, if it were perpetual, and always of the same tenor. --Dryden.
4. (Law) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument. --Bouvier.
5. [F. t['e]nor, L. tenor, properly, a holding; -- so called because the tenor was the voice which took and held the principal part, the plain song, air, or tune, to which the other voices supplied a harmony above and below: cf. It. tenore.] (Mus.) (a) The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary. (b) A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it.
{Old Tenor}, {New Tenor}, {Middle Tenor}, different descriptions of paper money, issued at different periods, by the American colonial governments in the last century.
high-pitched \high-pitched\ adj. 1. high in pitch or frequency; -- used of sounds and voices. Opposite of {low}. [Narrower terms: {adenoidal, pinched, nasal}; {altissimo}; {alto}; {countertenor, alto}; {falsetto}; {peaky, spiky}; {piping}; {shrill, sharp}; {screaky, screechy, squeaking, squeaky, squealing}; {soprano, treble}; {sopranino}; {tenor}]
Syn: high. [WordNet 1.5]
2. set at a sharp or high angle or slant; as, a high-pitched roof.
Syn: steeply pitched, steep. [WordNet 1.5]
Paul Frey (Emperor) sings with true musicianship - a blessing in any Strauss tenor - but somewhat palely and passionlessly.
Nobody enjoys himself more than Anthony Mee as Alfred the tenor, his accent now North-of-Watford, now Italian Riviera.
The one for tenor trombone is very interactive with the orchestra.
A tenor harmonizes and a baritone and a bass handle the lower chords.
Hans Gregory Ashbaker's muscular tenor coped quite successfully with the father's florid mad scene, and there were fine cameos from Stella Zambalis and Arturo Valencia as well as solid contributions from the large and busy chorus.
Of particular enduring interest is the clarinet playing of tenor saxophonist Lester Young.
This opera opens with the Nixons (tenor James Maddalena, in dark overcoat, soprano Carolann Page, petite and prim in her red frock) slowly floating down to China in a jet.
I hear that in "Otello" productions the strangled Ms. Te Kanawa keeps from deep slumber by counting the number of coughs (from the audience, not the tenor), and once got up to a hundred.
But the tenor easily dispatched his high-flying music while looking tall and trim in the snug breeches designed for him by the show's costumer, Giovanna Buzzi.
Such was the tenor of the times.
It is the only role the Italian tenor is singing at the Met this season.
Such language is a bit more alarming than the tenor of the report itself.
In the quartets, one person sings the lead or melody line, a tenor sings above the melody and a baritone usually below, with the bass welding the sound of the other three together.
In supporting roles, bass Paul Plishka was a stalwart Daland, Senta's pragmatic father, and tenor Gary Lakes was suitably distraught as Erik, her jilted fiance.
I don't want to become the Brother Grimm of opera." Country music singer George Strait has a crisp tenor, a lean frame and a career that is rolling like the tumbleweed in his native Texas.
The suggested reforms and the overall tenor of the new report have succeeded, at last, in disturbing even Gov. Mario Cuomo.
Three ballads, performed by Patrick Cassidy, a glorious Irish tenor, sound as if they had been written in 19th-century Appalachia.
Its impact was considerably enhanced by Philipp Himmelmann's semi-abstract production and the vivid performance of the American tenor Neil Wilson. That was one of the more original 'Forms of Interpretation' at Lucerne this summer.
Bing, caustic and "cadaverously thin," was not one to appreciate Melchior's ego or his size, and though the tenor's voice was still strong, he refused to re-engage him during his first season as general manager of the Metropolitan Opera in 1950-51.
His 'heroic pastoral' Titon et l'Aurora was produced in 1753 at the Opera in Paris with Marie Fel and the tenor Jelyotte. Titon is a shepherd in love with the goddess Aurora.
Still, he held his own, raising the decibel level even further with his brawny tenor.
It is strange that a voice which has seemed on the heavy side in lesser roles should sound underpowered when it comes to this one. There are no problems of that kind with the tenor, at least.
John Mitchinson is the tenor soloist.
He is clumsily sung by Flaviano Labo, a short tenor who had a short range and a short career in the late '60s.
John Elwes showed sterling stamina in tackling both the Evangelist's music and some of the solo tenor arias, though he was strained at the top; Stephen Varcoe was a light, eloquent Christus.
The Danish tenor brings to the part the same qualities of musicianship and stagecraft which have so distinguished his Siegmund.
Kurt Schreibmayer, a handsome blonde Sergey, demanded more of his light tenor that it had to offer.
Lamco is also mounting a new production of Verdi's "Macbeth" with tenor Placido Domingo leaving Macduff to tenor Neil Wilson and stepping into the pit to conduct baritone Justino Diaz and soprano Mara Zampieri as the thane and his ambitious wife.
Lamco is also mounting a new production of Verdi's "Macbeth" with tenor Placido Domingo leaving Macduff to tenor Neil Wilson and stepping into the pit to conduct baritone Justino Diaz and soprano Mara Zampieri as the thane and his ambitious wife.
I recall years ago a Columbia 78 by the French tenor Jean Planel, whose serene objectivity seems in retrospect more appropriate than the modern singers' involvement. Boyce: Solomon (a serenata).