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noun

Baritone, Barytone n.

(Mus.)

(a)

A male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise as high as the other.

(b)

A person having a voice of such range.

(c)

The viola di gamba, now entirely disused.

(Greek Gram.) A word which has no accent marked on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.

adjective

Baritone adj., n. See Barytone.

Baritone, Barytone adj.

(Mus.) Grave and deep, as a kind of male voice.

(Greek Gram.) Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.

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Etymology of 'Baritone'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Baritone" Quotes from Famous Books

... their feet. As the drama went on the interest grew. The performers appealed to each other, to the audience, to the heaven above; they took counsel with each other, the conspirators drew together in a knot; it was just an opera, the drums coming in at proper intervals, the tenor, baritone, and bass all where they should be—except that the voices were all of the same calibre. A woman once sang from the back row with a very fine contralto voice spoilt by being made artificially nasal; I notice all the women affect that unpleasantness. At one time a boy of angelic beauty was ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... flexible and melodious (in singing it was a baritone); though his utterance was perceptibly marked by a Lancastrian "burr"; his gestures were free and graceful, though never violent; every muscle of his face seemed to play its part in his nervous declamation; and the flash of his deep-set eyes revealed the fiery spirit that was at work within. It ...

— Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography • George William Erskine Russell

... printing these simple words, I could breathe them out to you, as some great tenor or baritone like Sims Reeves or Santley sings them—there is such a world of human life and feeling hidden there, ready to spring forth with ...

— The Golden Censer - The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future • John McGovern

... beautiful baritone voice pitched the chorus of a familiar negro melody, in which the triumphant and ...

— Frank Merriwell at Yale • Burt L. Standish

... awakens from you when you are reminded by the instruments; It is not the violins and the cornets—it is not the oboe, nor the beating drums—nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza—nor that of the men's chorus, nor that of the women's chorus, It is nearer and ...

— Birds and Poets • John Burroughs

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