tessitura

Meaning of tessitura

noun
  1. the range within which most notes of a vocal part fall.
    the tessitura of the part is much more comfortable for a countertenor than for a soprano
    a low tessitura

Italian, literally ‘texture’, from Latin textura (see texture).

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Hyphenation of tessitura

tes-si-tura

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • tessitura is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Translation of tessitura

Words that rhyme with tessitura

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