baritone

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Especially if they sing in an android baritone which is then chopped up and inserted into a bipolar glitch-attack that switchbacks from concussive techno to frenetic drum'n'bass - as on Tim Exile's new single "Family Galaxy" (Warp), a suitably baroque taster for his forthcoming, and unequivocally maximal, album Listening Tree.

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  1. noun A male singer or voice with a range higher than a bass and lower than a tenor.
  2. noun An instrument that sounds within this range.
  3. noun A vocal or instrumental part written in this range.
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  • Dmitry Hvorostovsky is a Russian baritone, and Juli found this via the OperaChic blog.
  • Since Eddie was a well known Metro baritone, the marriage made a big splash whose ripples ran around the civilized Galaxy. —  Thrilling Wonder Stories April, 1953
  • His voice was a pleasant baritone, his inflections a perfect mimicry of announcer's Standard. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 02 - August 2003
  • “That girlfriend of yours leave you unattended today?” Leroy had a noticeable baritone, and Joanie recognized who he was as she overheard the two men in the other room. —  The First Time
  • The baritone, the mezzo, and the bass are off to the side. —  Death Dance - Fairstein
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  1. Italian baritono, from Greek barutonos, deep sounding : barus, heavy; see gwerə-1 in Indo-European roots + tonos, tone; see tone.
 

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