Timeline for Why do musicians prefer to play in certain keys?
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| Nov 5, 2013 at 17:02 | comment | added | Tim | The way I understood it was that tessitura is the 'main body' of spread of notes in a given song, whereas compass is closer to the total range of notes in that song, or more correctly, the full range of one's voice ; so a song may have a lot of high notes for a particular singer, so would have a high tessitura. If a song had only a few high notes, it would not be thought to have a high tessitura. Tessitura actually means texture rather than range. | |
| Nov 5, 2013 at 5:00 | comment | added | user1044 | No, it's not more accurate. "Compass" is the English word for "tessitura" which is the correct technical term, in Italian. I added a link to the article on "tessitura" in Wikipedia in the body of my answer above. | |
| Nov 5, 2013 at 4:58 | history | edited | user1044 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 4, 2013 at 20:11 | comment | added | Tim | Interesting to find out about tessitura. Thanks. Also check out 'compass' which is possibly a more accurate description of the concept. | |
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| Nov 2, 2013 at 15:50 | history | edited | user1044 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2013 at 15:45 | history | answered | user1044 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |