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Friday, November 22nd, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Tenor
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(through Fr. and It. from Lat. tenor, holding on, course, sense of a law, tone), a general course or direction, the drift or general meaning of a statement or discourse, hence, in law, the true purport and effect of a deed or instrument. The most general use of the word is, in music, for the highest kind of the natural adult male voice. This use descends from the Medieval Latin tenor, which was applied first to the chief melody, the cantus firmus, and then to the male voice to which the singing of this was assigned.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Tenor'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/t/tenor.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Tenor'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/t/tenor.html. 1910.
