What's the difference between soprano and tenor?

Soprano


Definition:

  • (n.) The treble; the highest vocal register; the highest kind of female or boy's voice; the upper part in harmony for mixed voices.
  • (n.) A singer, commonly a woman, with a treble voice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He'd later carry this over into Netflix's House Of Cards but before that, TV had already begun to emulate this new, bleak, antiheroic maturity with a cycle of dark, longform, acclaimed dramas, commencing with The Sopranos and culminating in Breaking Bad .
  • (2) The following year he played a philosophising, brutal hitman in the film True Romance, written by Quentin Tarantino , which paved the way for his lead role in The Sopranos, the gangster family saga that ran for six seasons from 1999.
  • (3) Adipose tissue has been reported to contain relatively high levels of the specific mRNA for retinol-binding protein (RBP) (Makover A., Soprano, D.R., Wyatt, M. L., and Goodman, D.S.
  • (4) French soprano Natalia Dessay and Lithuanian soprano Violeta Urmana were invited to perform.
  • (5) Dinner guests were serenaded by opera singer Renee Fleming, a triple-Grammy award-winning soprano, who sang Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas and the Puccini aria O Mio Babbino Caro.
  • (6) It was television and Tony Soprano that gained him Emmy awards, three years running, and superstar status, which he never equalled but which sustained his active post-Sopranos life.
  • (7) The auditory signal provided by a soprano recorder in a breathing circuit can help human subjects to regulate inspiratory and expiratory airflow rates at constant preset levels.
  • (8) — Steven Van Zandt (@StevieVanZandt) July 15, 2012 But Van Zandt, who also starred in the US drama series The Sopranos, turned to Twitter in rage.
  • (9) "There are people who act like Tony Soprano, they just aren't in the mafia," says Mondanile.
  • (10) That look will be familiar to fans of the programme that has followed in the footsteps of The Sopranos and The Wire by creating a television drama that, in its complexity and ambition, stands toe-to-toe with any comparable big-screen offering.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Sopranos might be the quintessential Catholic Italian family in American pop culture, but we want to hear from some real life ones!
  • (12) Gandolfini won several awards for his role in The Sopranos, including both the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series.
  • (13) 'There are people who act like Tony Soprano, they just aren't in the mafia … it was filmed around the area where we grew up' – Matthew Mondanile Real Estate.
  • (14) The ideal Isolde is flame-haired, fiery, indomitable yet vulnerable, stern yet tender, and a standout dramatic soprano.
  • (15) I told him one day, 'Let's do a small duet of baritone and soprano,' and he said, 'No, no, my fans only know me as a rock singer and they will not recognise my voice if I sing in baritone.'
  • (16) And "Authors Guild" president Roxana Robinson says Amazon is like "Tony Soprano" and "thuggish" .
  • (17) Like The Sopranos, too, it uncannily anticipated a national mood soon to be intensified by current events – in this case the great economic unsettlement of the late 00s, which would leave many previously secure middle-class Americans suddenly feeling like desperate outlaws in their own suburbs.
  • (18) There's a neat video to be found online that compiles every single curse uttered in every single episode of The Sopranos, in chronological order.
  • (19) However, in July the broadcaster stepped up its US acquisitions effort , signing a £150m, five-year deal to acquire the exclusive UK TV rights to US cable channel HBO's entire archive, including The Wire, The Sopranos and Sex and the City, as well as all future shows such as Boardwalk Empire and a first-look deal on all co-productions.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Blake Griffin joins the cast of "The Sopranos."

Tenor


Definition:

  • (n.) A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.
  • (n.) That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
  • (n.) Stamp; character; nature.
  • (n.) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument.
  • (n.) The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary.
  • (n.) A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No, for all of its ugly tenor, that statement has long been true under the law; corporations have long existed as a concept by which business interests could have the legal standing of individuals.
  • (2) The discovery of troponin C and calmodulin set the tenor for understanding the intracellular mechanism of action of calcium.
  • (3) Abdullah reined in his base but the shift in the tenor of the fans was unmistakeable, especially after some of them tore down a portrait of Karzai.
  • (4) Macqueen plays up that view, and finds the tenor of his Eye different from that of Ingrams.
  • (5) In the young age group sexual activity was highest among the bass voices, in the middle and old age group tenors were most active.
  • (6) The idea caught on, and now the Doodlers have put their innovative spin on everything from Freddie Mercury (a video accompanied by the 1978 Queen hit Don’t Stop Me Now) to Jules Verne (the logo adapted to show the view from a submarine, inspired by Verne’s classic Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea), and the tenor Luciano Pavarotti, whose animated likeness replaced the “L” on the Google logo for one day in 2007.
  • (7) | Lucia Graves Read more It was an attempt to resurrect the long-dead genre of vaudeville, only replacing acrobats with Rick Santorum and tenors with veterans.
  • (8) So incendiary were the interview's contents evidently deemed that it was practically smuggled out of the Vatican, with so few senior officials reportedly aware of its tenor that the consensus is that it has sent "shock waves" around the Catholic world.
  • (9) As compared to tenor singers higher testosterone and lower oestradiol plasma concentrations were measured in bass and baritone singers.
  • (10) Mr Woodhouse has an obsession with vitamin pills, Jane Fairfax plays the tenor saxophone and Frank Churchill has been living in Australia: meet the cast of the modern-day Emma, which is to be rewritten for the social media generation by Alexander McCall Smith .
  • (11) For the same excess pressure over threshold, the professional tenors produced 10-12 dB greater intensity than the male nonsingers, primarily because their peak airflow was much higher for the same pressure.
  • (12) These performances are splendid, but the principals are exceptional: Thompson finds vulnerability beneath Travers's spikes, and Hanks brings a steely tenor to Disney that prevents him from becoming completely gooey.
  • (13) Sometimes, says Costa, 74, Mario Lanza, the American tenor and Hollywood star would feature.
  • (14) We must fight for the real needs of the people | Bernie Sanders and James Clyburn Read more The tenor of such exchanges echoed Republican town halls in other states in recent months.
  • (15) Jay Kaplan, staff attorney at the LGBT project of the ACLU of Michigan, told the Guardian the law “flies in the face of the whole tenor” of the supreme court’s majority opinion on same-sex marriage.
  • (16) 18 February 2010 The PCC rejects the complaint , admitting it was "uncomfortable with the tenor of the columnist's remarks" but that censuring Moir and the Mail would represent "a slide towards censorship".
  • (17) In recent days, Westerwelle even intensified the tenor of his rhetoric.
  • (18) So many images are seared into the mind, from the sight of Ranieri proudly standing alongside Andrea Bocelli as the Italian tenor produced such a spine-tingling performance, to that wonderful and surreal moment later in the evening when Wes Morgan and his 64-year-old manager thrust the Premier League trophy into the night sky to a backdrop of fireworks and tears.
  • (19) In the Atlantic city of Mar del Plata, lyric tenor Darío Volonté, a survivor of the Belgrano, the cruiser on which 323 Argentinian sailors died after it was torpedoed by a British submarine, led a large crowd in the national anthem.
  • (20) As the audience arrived outside the Lincoln Center, protesters brandished signs with slogans such as “tenors and terrorists don’t mix”.