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Examples of tenor

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Example 1 compares the organum tenors and the chant melodies on which they are based.
Unlike most tenors, which generated numbers of different works, the motets under discussion are the only ones known to have been composed on this chant.
Coloration was common enough in fourteenth-century motet tenors, but is rarely found in isorhythmic tenors after c. 1400.
If we have all-girls choirs where are our tenors and basses to come from?
Notably, the fifth is kept intact in the tenor's opening viderunt, and only changed in the second and third iterations.
See note 12 above, on her similar thesis regarding solus tenors.
The haute-contre line was sung by high tenors, rather than female altos or countertenors.
Operatic tenors are not known for their reticence.
While the compositional procedures in both motets differ, the end result is nonetheless similar: both tenors end on a different final than that of their respective chant segments.
Performance of intentionally complex motet tenors probably did not pose a problem when the composers themselves were taking part in the performance of their work, and could explicate the music.
The augmented tenors are, of course, not delineated with bar-line strokes as frequently as the other parts, and when coloration is 'across the bar-line', that particular bar-line stroke is omitted.
The combination of all of these features establishes the tenor and function of the discourse.
She describes the overly entrenched characterizations of sopranos as helpless and tenors as vulnerable and romantic.
An important caveat pertains to every comparison of motet tenors with chants, such as the one presented here and further below.
Please make your voices heard above those of the three tenors.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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tenor

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general tenor
For those who value planning, the generaltenor is downbeat.
high tenor
I thought he adopted a slightly hightenor in the early stages of it, but nevertheless we much enjoyed his performance.
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