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tessitura (tes-i-TOOR-uh, tes-see-TOO-rah) - n., the average range of a vocal or instrumental part in a musical composition; the most comfortable range for a singer or musical instrument, in which they/it present their/its best-sounding timbre.
General dictionaries only mention the former, but musical glossaries focus on the latter, which is the sense I learned. Taken in the 1890s from Italian, literally meaning texture, from Latin textūra, texture, from the same root as texere, to weave.
---L.
General dictionaries only mention the former, but musical glossaries focus on the latter, which is the sense I learned. Taken in the 1890s from Italian, literally meaning texture, from Latin textūra, texture, from the same root as texere, to weave.
---L.
