BARITONE • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Baritone

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/bˈɛrətˌoʊn/ Listen

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.

See images of 'Baritone'

Etymology of 'Baritone'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Baritone" Quotes from Famous Books

... rich, full baritone voice, and he seemed to regain his old vigour and enthusiasm only on those occasions when he sang in the choir. There his voice rang out clear above the others as he led; his eye flashed, and his countenance lit up. He was a tall and strongly built ...

— Kafir Stories - Seven Short Stories • William Charles Scully

... money recklessly. He went back to the hotel, called Donna on the long-distance phone and frittered away two dollars in inconsequential conversation. However, he felt amply rewarded for the extravagance when Donna's voice—deep, throaty, almost a baritone—came to him over the wire; the delighted, almost childish cry of amazement which greeted his "Hello, Donna girl" was music ...

— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne

... I suppose I am. She's planning to use that opera of mine, you remember,—The Outcry we called it—for a novelty, provided they like the way I've padded up her part. The big role in it is really for the baritone, of course. That's what I've been slaving over for the last two weeks. If she makes a hit with it, she'll take it to the Metropolitan next winter. Of course, there's no reason in God's world why she shouldn't do that if she can get away with ...

— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster

... what 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 ...

— Birds and Poets • John Burroughs

... even baritone—I wish I could say tenor—of our way. My health became seriously alarming in September, so we went off to Malvern for a fortnight; and there the mountain air, exercise, and regular diet set me up, so that I have been in better ...

— What I Remember, Volume 2 • Thomas Adolphus Trollope

More quotes...