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plural tessituras or tessiture
(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. quotations examples
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.
1995, Anthony Burgess, Byrne
Anne's talented voice made the lines I had written swoop, howl, and whine through an authentically Thatcherite tessitura [...].
2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 257
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.
2014, Jane Streeton, Philip Raymond, Singing on Stage, A&C Black, page 146