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(music) The most acceptable and comfortable vocal range for a singer or musical instrument; the range in which a given type of voice presents its best-sounding timbre.

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Byrne shrugged. He started writing a bravura / Opera based on Cleopatra’s death, / Exploiting all Maria’s tessitura, / With a high F before her final breath.

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1995, Anthony Burgess, Byrne:

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Anne's talented voice made the lines I had written swoop, howl, and whine through an authentically Thatcherite tessitura [...].

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2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 257:

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In classical voice training, and in the world of classical singing, voices are divided into categories dependent on timbre or tonal colour and tessitura or comfortable average pitch range.

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2014, Jane Streeton, Philip Raymond, Singing on Stage, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 146: