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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 634 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TENOR (through Fr. and It. from See also:Lat. tenor, holding on, course, sense of a See also:law, See also:tone)  , a See also:general course or direction, the See also:drift or general meaning of a statement or discourse, hence, in See also:law, the true purport and effect of a See also:deed or See also:instrument . The most general use of the word is, in See also:music, for the highest See also:kind of the natural adult male See also:voice . This use descends from the See also:Medieval Latin See also:tenor, which was applied first to the See also:chief See also:melody, the cantus firmus, and then to the male voice to which the singing of this was assigned .

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