tenor

[ US /ˈtɛnɝ/ ]
[ UK /tˈɛnɐ/ ]

NOUN

a settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life
nothing disturbed the even tenor of her ways
the adult male singing voice above baritone
an adult male with a tenor voice
the general meaning or substance of an utterance
although I disagreed with him I could follow the tenor of his argument
the pitch range of the highest male voice

ADJECTIVE

(of a musical instrument) intermediate between alto and baritone or bass
a tenor sax
of or close in range to the highest natural adult male voice
tenor voice

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Band leader, Ray Blue, is also a composer, arranger and performer on tenor, alto and soprano saxophones.
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It destroyed his tenor voice and his familiar cracked, husky tones took over. Times, Sunday Times
The tenor saxophonist's rousing stomps and sensitive ballads are deeply imprinted in his fans' memories.
The society is currently looking for tenors basses, altos and sopranos to join the adult choir.
He taught himself to play the clarinet then tenor sax.
The program started off ascetically with "Six Studies in English Folksong" which the program warned us were "very melancholic," continued with a song cycle for violin and tenor called "Along the Field" to poems by A.E. Houseman, and finished off the first half with insanely Pre-Raphaelite lushness to a song cycle set to Dante Gabriel Rosetti poems called "The House of Life. Thomas Glenn Sings Vaughan Williams
Your teachers were all baritones and even your tenor voice has a distinct baritonal touch to it.
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Byron Wallen switches between trumpet and flugelhorn, whilst Ed Jones likewise moves from soprano to tenor horns.

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