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Definition of counter tenor

counter tenor
2. (Mus.) Same as Contra. Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to counter tenor. 3. (Far.) The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck. 4. The back leather or heel part of a boot.
Counter tenor
Counter tenor Coun"ter ten`or (t?n`?r). [OF. contreteneur. Cf. Contratenor, and see Tenor a part in music.] (Mus.) One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor. Counter-tenor clef (Mus.), the C clef when placed on the third line; -- also called alto clef.

Meaning of counter tenor from wikipedia

- notes in a well-blended "chest voice" – see below). "The Purcell counter-tenor 'tenor' did not flourish in England much beyond the early years of the [eighteenth]...
- ISBN 0-520-04500-9 (cloth); ISBN 0-520-05062-2. Dolmetsch Organisation. 2011. "Counter-tenor clef". In Music Dictionary Online Dolmetsch Online (Accessed 23 March...
- 1952) is a British choral director, composer and arranger, and a former counter-tenor of the King's Singers. Jackman was a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral...
- prince looks like a woman, but sounds like a boy. When pla**** by a counter-tenor, he looks like a man, but sings like a woman. This disparity is made...
- counter-tenor singer Andreas Scholl. For the first time in the history of music the Vavox - Stabat Mater mixes a 13th-century Latin text, a counter-tenor...
- Sytse Buwalda (born 1965) is a Dutch counter-tenor. Buwalda studied at the Sweelinck School of Music (Conservatorium van Amsterdam) in Amsterdam and has...
- Parts labeled "Treble, Counter, Tenor, and B****" correspond to the modern SATB four-voice choir. However, the melody is in the tenor part, not the treble...
- composer and pianist, was born at Broadstairs in 1936. Alfred Deller, counter-tenor singer, was born at Margate in 1912. Orlando Gibbons, composer and organist...
- classics at Queens’ College, Cambridge, where he gained a First and sang counter-tenor in the Chapel Choir. After university, Tilbrook joined GCHQ as a codebreaker...
- almost-a-baritone Jack Walsh Captain Kadd b****o Will Roy Opec bargain counter tenor John Ferrante Figaro silent Arthur Kaemmer Stage Director Michael Montel...