Tessitura
Where a piece mostly sits — not the same as range
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Tessitura is where a piece mostly sits: not how high or low it goes, but where it spends most of its time. It decides comfort and the colour burden of a singer or player.
It differs from range: range is the outer limit, tessitura the centre of gravity; a song with a modest range can still be exhausting if its tessitura stays high. The usual mistake is to check only the range — tessitura is where the real difficulty lives.
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Sources
- tessitura 与 range 的区别，参 The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "Tessitura"；本文为原创表述
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