| 释义 |
‖ tessiˈtura Mus.
[It.]
The part of the total compass of a melody or voice-part in which most of its tones lie. Also transf.
1884Grove Dict. Mus. IV. 94/1 A term..used by the Italians to indicate how the music of a piece ‘lies’;..what is the prevailing or average position of its notes in relation to the compass of the voice or instrument for which it is written... ‘Range’ does not at all give the idea, as the range may be extended, and the general tessitura limited; while the range may be high and the tessitura low or medium. 1891in Cent. Dict. 1948Penguin Music Mag. Feb. 76 One can hardly blame him, for the tessitura is sometimes cruelly high—so many Italian baritone parts seem to have been written for tenors in reduced circumstances. 1956Auden & Kallman Magic Flute (1957) 116 You won't hear a word in Our high tessitura. 1978Early Music Apr. 197/2 He chose singers for whom the resulting tessituras did not mean any strain. 1982English World-Wide II. 136 Tessitura (or the characteristic range of notes, or compass, within which the pitch fluctuation falls) was felt to be generally wider in Br[itish] E[nglish] than in S[ingapore] E[nglish]. |