In
music, the term tessitura (Italian: texture) generally describes the most musically acceptable and comfortable
timbre for a given
voice or, less frequently,
musical instrument. This broad definition is often interpreted to refer specifically to the
pitch range that most frequently occurs within a given piece, or part, of music. For example, throughout the entirety of
Wagner's
Ring, the music written for the role of Siegfried ranges from C#3 to C5, but the tessitura is described as high because the tenor phrases are most often in the range of C4 to A4.
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