List of tenors in non-classical music

The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3 (C one octave below middle C), to the high C (C5). The low extreme for tenors is roughly A2 (two octaves below middle C). At the highest extreme, some tenors can sing up to F one octave above middle C (F5).[1]

The term tenor was developed in relation to classical and operatic voices, where the classification is based not merely on the singer's vocal range but also on the tessitura and timbre of the voice. For classical and operatic singers, their voice type determines the roles they will sing and is a primary method of categorization. In non-classical music, singers are primarily defined by their genre and their gender and not by their vocal range.[2] When the terms soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, tenor, baritone, and bass are used as descriptors of non-classical voices, they are applied more loosely than they would be to those of classical singers and generally refer only to the singer's perceived vocal range.

The following is a list of singers in various music genres and styles (most of which can be found on the List of popular music genres)[3] who have been described as tenors.

  1. ^ McKinney, James (1994). The Diagnosis & Correction of Vocal Faults: A Manual for Teachers of Singing and for Choir Directors. Genovex Music Group. ISBN 978-1-56593-940-0.
  2. ^ Axelrod, Alan, The complete idiot's guide to jazz Archived 4 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine, Alpha Books, 1999, pp. 68–69 (ISBN 0028627318). See also Tarasti, Eero, Signs of music: a guide to musical semiotics, Walter de Gruyter, 2002, pp. 157–178 (ISBN 3110172267)
  3. ^ For a detailed description of the differences between the operatic and musical theatre voice see Björkner, Eva, Why so different? Aspects of voice characteristics in operatic and musical theatre singing Archived 23 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine, KTH School of Computer Science and Communication, 2006 (ISBN 9171785183)

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