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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, 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 'Barytone'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Barytone" Quotes from Famous Books

... quite evident that you have come from everywhere except from the civilized world. I bowed to you twenty times, and you declined me the honor of a recognition. Absorbed in the music, I suppose. La Favorita is not performed among the savages, so they remain savages. How do you like our barytone? He has sung his aria with ...

— The Cross of Berny • Emile de Girardin

... overcome by Da Ponte going to his pupils for money enough to pay an extra singer for the part. Many a tenor, before and since, who has been cast for that divinely musical milksop has looked longingly at the rle of Don Giovanni which Mozart gave to a barytone, and some have appropriated it. Garcia was one of these (he had been a tenor de forza in his day), and it fell to him to introduce the character in New York. Outside of himself, his daughter, and the basso Angrisani, the company was a poor affair, the orchestra not much better than that ...

— Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel