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Tenor C is an
organ (musical instrument) builder's term for small C or C3, the
note one
octave below
Middle C. In
stoplists it usually means that a
rank isn't full compass, omitting the bottom octave.
"Tenor high C" (or simply high C) is the note an octave above middle C (or
C5), notated one octave higher above the staff. In 1831
Gilbert Duprez created a sensation by singing the high C's of
Guillaume Tell in
chest voice, the so-called
"Ut de poitrine" or
"do di petto", instead of in the
head voice employed by the previous singer of the role,
Adolphe Nourit. The composer,
Gioacchino Rossini), was evidently unimpressed, calling it "the squack of a chicken with its throat cut", but it has since come to be generally expected from opera singers. The note is beyond the common range for an untrained tenor and even some professional tenors can't hit this note.
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