title: Tenor Voice: A Manual for Training the Voice
author:  Anthony Frisell 
description: Anthony Frisell is a world-renowned teacher of voice for singers wishing to prusue careers in the field of international opera.
zlib_text: HARMONY - 1 BASICS/ROOT POSITIONS
  STYLE
  We begin learning what could be called hymn-tune style, i.e. 4-part harmony for voices, virtually one chord per note.
  No better way has been found as a beginning, but please be clear that as soon as this is mastered, we do all in our power
  to avoid it, in favour of something more enterprising and elegant. For although all rules can be broken, we need to learn
  what it is we are breaking (not to mention why...).
  Remember the GOLDEN rule:
  TREBLE AND BASS ON THEIR OWN FIRST. Only when these are passed OK should you proceed to filling in the
  inner parts.
  RANGES, MOVEMENT, SPACING
  For normal purposes stick to these ranges: Sop C-G, Alto G-D, Tenor C-G, Bass F-D.
  No voice should ever move any augmented interval, any compound interval (more than an octave) or any major
  seventh. Particularly watch for the augmented 2nd in the minor key.
  Parts should not cross (e.g. Ten. higher than Alto)
  or overlap (e.g. present Tenor note higher than previous Alto note).