Editing Tenor (section)

== Vocal range ==
[[File:Tenor voice range on keyboard.svg|thumb|400px|Tenor vocal range (C<sub>3</sub>–C<sub>5</sub>) notated on the [[treble clef|treble]] [[staff (music)|staff]] (left) and on piano keyboard in green with dot marking middle C (C<sub>4</sub>). The numeral eight below the treble clef indicates that the pitches sound an octave lower than written: see [[Clef#Octave clefs]]. This is the standard clef for tenor parts in scores.]]
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The [[vocal range]] of the tenor is  the highest of the male [[voice type]]s. Within [[opera]], the lowest note in the standard tenor repertoire is widely defined to be B{{music|flat}}<sub>2</sub>. However, the role of Rodrigo di Dhu (written for [[Andrea Nozzari]]) in Rossini's rarely performed ''[[La donna del lago]]'' is defined as a tenor but requires an A{{music|flat}}<sub>2</sub>.<ref>https://vmirror.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/a/a4/IMSLP107834-PMLP83289-Rossini_-_La_donna_del_lago_(vs_Carli).pdf 

p.101 (of the file) </ref> Within more frequently performed repertoire, [[Der Ring des Nibelungen#List of characters|Mime]] and [[Salome (opera)|Herod]] both call for an A<sub>2</sub>.<ref>Mime A2 https://ks15.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/6/63/IMSLP336112-SIBLEY1802.23612.c0b6-39087011185776Act_I.pdf 

p.54 (of the file)</ref><ref>HerodA2 https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/d/d8/IMSLP824681-PMLP03532-Strauss_R._Salome_PS_cropped.pdf

p.198</ref> 

A few tenor roles in the standard repertoire call for a "tenor C" (C<sub>5</sub>, one octave above middle C). Some, if not all, of the few top Cs in the standard operatic repertoire are either optional—such as in "[[Che gelida manina]]" in Puccini's ''[[La bohème]]''—or interpolated (added) by tradition, such as in "[[Di quella pira]]" from Verdi's ''[[Il trovatore]]''); however, the highest demanded note in the standard tenor operatic repertoire is D<sub>5</sub>, found in "[[Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire]]"<ref>{{AllMusic|class=composition|id=mc0002375912|label=Adolphe Adam – ''Le postillon de lonjumeau''|first=Erik|last=Eriksson|access-date=27 July 2014}}</ref> from [[Adolphe Adam]]'s ''[[Le postillon de Lonjumeau]]'' and "{{lang|fr|Loin de son amie|italic=no}}"<ref>{{cite web | author = Glaubitz, Robert | date = 2010 | title = Loin de son amie—No. 3, Sérénade from Act I of the French opera La Juive by Jacques François Fromental Halévy | work = Aria-Database.com | url = http://www.aria-database.com/search.php?individualAria=1172 | access-date = 16 April 2017 |url-status=live| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170417072437/http://www.aria-database.com/search.php?individualAria=1172 | archive-date = 17 April 2017 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> from Fromental Halévy's ''[[La Juive]]''). In the ''leggero'' repertoire, the highest note is F<sub>5</sub> (Arturo in "Credeasi, misera" from [[Vincenzo Bellini|Bellini]]'s ''[[I puritani]]''),<ref>{{cite web|author = IMSLP Staff [Guo, Edward W. et al.] | date = 2017 | title = Bellini – I puritani (vocal score) | location = Wilmington, DE | publisher = International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)/Petrucci Music Library (Project Petrucci LLC) | url=http://imslp.org/wiki/File:PMLP60620-Bellini_-_I_puritani_(vocal_score).pdf |pages=254, 256|work=IMSLP.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/bitstream/handle/1803/3084/sen-suranjanocr.pdf|title=Romantic and Modern Music Literature (MUSL 244)|last=Calico|first=Joy|page=7}}</ref> therefore, very few tenors have this role in their repertoire without transposition (given the raising of [[concert pitch]] since its composition),<ref name="Boldrey">{{cite book |title= Guide to Operatic Roles and Arias |last= Boldrey |first= Richard |year= 1994 | publisher= Caldwell Publishing|isbn= 9781877761645 }}{{page needed|date=April 2017}}</ref> or resorting to [[falsetto]].