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- adjective music Of, pertaining or proper to the
tenor voice
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Examples
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OK, that's an exaggeration, but the singer's dusky voice plays tricks on you before you realize his brighter tenorial overtones barely trump their subterranean brethren for ultimate categorization.
Rodney Punt: Jonas Kaufmann Triumphs in Lieder Recital for LA Opera Rodney Punt 2011
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OK, that's an exaggeration, but the singer's dusky voice plays tricks on you before you realize his brighter tenorial overtones barely trump their subterranean brethren for ultimate categorization.
Rodney Punt: Jonas Kaufmann Triumphs in Lieder Recital for LA Opera Rodney Punt 2011
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OK, that's an exaggeration, but the singer's dusky voice plays tricks on you before you realize his brighter tenorial overtones barely trump their subterranean brethren for ultimate categorization.
Rodney Punt: Jonas Kaufmann Triumphs in Lieder Recital for LA Opera Rodney Punt 2011
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OK, that's an exaggeration, but the singer's dusky voice plays tricks on you before you realize his brighter tenorial overtones barely trump their subterranean brethren for ultimate categorization.
Rodney Punt: Jonas Kaufmann Triumphs in Lieder Recital for LA Opera Rodney Punt 2011
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Mr. Domingo, still in astonishingly robust voice, dominated his scenes; Mr. Castronovo, in a more lyric tenorial vein, brought both passion and restraint to Mario, and seemed to be singing in a different opera.
When Postman and Poet Meet Heidi Waleson 2010
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(Next month: the tenorial high-maintenance gloss of hollandaise sauce.) posted by Matthew @ 3: 05 PM
Archive 2008-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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(Next month: the tenorial high-maintenance gloss of hollandaise sauce.) posted by Matthew @ 3: 05 PM
Food goes in here Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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And if the last-minute Mario Cavaradossi of Ian DeNolfo was as woefully short on any sense of a musically shaped line as he was long on a genuine tenorial ring, that didn't matter much.
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In Boccanegra he had more opportunity to exploit his incomparable stage presence, offering his now familiar tenorial take on the baritone title role.
Evening Standard - Home Barry Millington 2011
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Mr. Storey possesses a youthful voice of great strength and beauty that he used with considerable artistry throughout this daunting tenorial escapade.
Opera Today 2010
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