tessitura
noun/ˌtesɪˈtjʊərə/
/ˌtesɪˈtʊrə/
(music, from Italian)- the range of notes that are used in a singing partWord OriginItalian, literally ‘texture’, from Latin textura ‘weaving’, from text- ‘woven’, from the verb texere.
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