Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A male singer or voice with a range higher than a bass and lower than a tenor.
- n. An instrument that sounds within this range.
- n. A vocal or instrumental part written in this range.
- n. A valved brass instrument similar to but larger than the euphonium.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See barytone.
Wiktionary
- n. The male voice between tenor and bass
- n. A person, instrument, or group that performs the baritone part.
- n. Specifically, an instrument similar to the euphonium.
GNU Webster's 1913
- See barytone.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the second lowest brass wind instrument
- n. a male singer
- adj. lower in range than tenor and higher than bass
- n. the second lowest adult male singing voice
Etymologies
- Italian baritono, from Greek barutonos, deep sounding : barus, heavy; see gwerə-1 in Indo-European roots + tonos, tone; see tone.
Examples
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“His warm, grainy baritone is still so closely identified with such familiar ballads as "Stardust" and "The Christmas Song" that it 's hard to imagine anyone else performing them.”
“Mr. Elling's treatments of standards (like "Stairway to the Stars") are amazingly straightforward and heartfelt — and his baritone is deep and warm.”
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“Its big tune, a duet for tenor and baritone, is apparently England's perennial number one favorite.”
“Conrad Cheek Jr., who many Hill staffers know as the baritone hawking Street Sense newspapers around Capitol Hill.”
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“He was phenomenal, because I played this instrument called the baritone horn and he was told he had to understudy me in five days.”
“From Ken Burns's epochal series "The Civil War" to "The American Experience," his baritone is the voice of the past for two generations of PBS viewers.”
“In the center of everything is Roberts 'rich baritone, which is instantly recognizable.”
“And on top of it all is Brock Boss 'baritone, which is of a rare quality you might expect to hear from British post-punk outfits.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘baritone’.
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Organ Stops
A list of pipe- and pedal-organ stops. These have variously and perhaps at times capriciously been named and labelled by organ builders in Latin, English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, a...
diapason, double open diapason, sub-bourdon, double dulciana, bourdon, contra gamba, pyramidon, open diapason, stopped diapason, dulcis, dulciana, viol-di-gamba and 237 more...
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LA Opera Talks
opera, music, Lord of the Rings, The Elixir of Love, Tamerlano, Gotterdammerung, The Stigmatized, soprano, tenor, bass, baritone, dancer and 2 more...
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a list of pretentious words i have used or hope to use when discussing operas because they make me feel like i am considerably more knowledgeable about opera than i actually am.
pulchritudinous, divina, libretto, diegetic, syncretism, mezzo-soprano, contralto, coloratura, tenor, baritone, bass-baritone, bass and 40 more...
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