Tessiture

In Musique, the tessiture of a voice or a instrument indicates the whole of the notes that a Musicien, Chant or or instrumentalist, is able to emit easily, since the serious , until the acute . The tessiture and the stamp are used to classify the voices and certain instruments by categories or families.

the word “tessiture” must be carefully distinguished from the word Ambitus, which, indicates to him the total extent (tessiture more extreme notes) of a voice, an instrument or a musical left.

Tessiture of the voices and certain “traditional” instruments

Here the most frequent tessitures of the voices and a selection of instruments in Classical music. For more details, you can consult the following articles as a preliminary: Voice, Cords, Wood, Coppers, Keyboards and Percussions.

N.B. : for the human voice, low, baritone, tenor and contralto are used for the man and viola, mezzo-soprano and soprano for the woman or the child (even if there is no difference of ambitus between viola and contralto).

Ambitus famous singers

  • Daniel Balavoine: 2 octaves and half (of La-1 to Semi-4 in S.O.S of land in distress (song of Starmania ); but perhaps it had more raised tessiture)

  • Marianne James: 3 octaves
  • Freddie Mercury: 3 octaves and half
  • Celine Dion: 5 octaves - The acutest note of Celine Dion is B5=si of the 5th octave (the album " one heart" , in the song entitled " Naked")
  • Christina Aguilera : 4 octaves
  • Jeff Buckley: 4 octaves
  • Tim Buckley: 5 octaves
  • Whitney Houston: more than 4 octaves
  • Hyde: more than 5 octaves and half (the most serious note: Angel Bruise // acuter: Hitomi No Juyyin)
  • Yma Sumac: 4 octaves and half, an astonishing agility and a power, also celebrate for its voice of whistle.
  • Lara Fabian : 3 octaves and half
  • Ivan Rebroff: 4 octaves and half
  • Keita Tachibana (W-inds.): 5 octaves
  • Klaus Nomi: 5 octaves (voice of baritone to Falsetto)
  • Mariah Carey: almost 5 octaves (of F3 in F7 (in All In Your Mind (MTV) ), even G#7 (reached into live, on the round " Emotions" twice))
  • Rachelle Ferrell : 6 octaves (album Somethingelse )
  • Grégory Lemarchal: 4 octaves
  • Kimera: 4 octaves of Carmen (contralto) to the Queen of the Night (soprano will coloratura).

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