I think that most women rich, emotional outpouring singer—the richer the bert Armado in "Love's Laboui woman wants music that will make passionate her sense of hearing, and an average tenor can often do this more effectively than a first-class baritone or bass.
The tenor, because of its pitch, is more naturally a display voice than any baritone or bass; and strong is the tenor who can resist the temptation to let his voice take off into a wonderful display of aeronautical stunting. The lower voices have to depend more on artistry to make up their natural handicap in the race for popular applause.
I daresay that the angel Israfel. whose heart-strings are a lute and who has the sweetest voice of all God's creatures—according to the Koran—is a tenor; for Mohammed, with his multiplicity of wives, probably allowed his judgment to be swayed by tem.
Climate might have something to do with it, because in the warm Mediterranean countries tenors are demigods, while, in Northern Europe, baritones and basses are not so utterly submerged by their silver-throated rivals.
But it was convenience, as well as woman's taste, which built up the tradition that operatic heroes should be tenors. Before music was written, it was the lot of the highest voice to sing the melody and the lower voices to harmonise. It was perfectly natural that the highest voice should dominate any group singing, and it ig still the case now that music has become a highly-specialized art.
Yet, I do not know why tenors should be preferred as solo singers to baritones and basses; and, even if I did know, it-would not alter the fact that I prefer tenors myself.
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