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Definition of baritone in English: baritonenoun ˈbarɪtəʊnˈbɛrəˌtoʊn 1An adult male singing voice between tenor and bass. he sang in a rich baritone Example sentencesExamples - On Sings Pajo introduced his shaky baritone to the world along with a new-found talent for writing great rootsy folk.
- Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise rose up from the congregation, filling the church with strong English baritones and contraltos.
- It was male, a baritone that held a sense of authority.
- ‘I can't love you any more,’ I sang in my very best imitation of Bebe Daniels, which isn't very good but then a bass baritone can only do so much in the way of 1940s popular soprano.
- From down the alley they could hear the high-pitched sound of a woman's voice, followed by the rich baritone of man.
- His bass baritone is rich and meaty, just like his heart.
- With his rich baritone and powerful stage presence, Davis made his mark as an actor, playwright, and spoken-word artist over a distinguished career that lasted nearly 60 years.
- The child's sound had matured into a full, rich baritone.
- My top action hero this week is Dwayne Croft, who sings baritone for the Metropolitan Opera.
- Hawley's style, his sturdy baritone singing songs that combine hints of country with pre-rock pop and orchestral flourishes overlaid with healthy dollop of reverb, has a robust appeal.
- His voice, a deep baritone of startling beauty, awakened the girl from her lapse.
- A voice spoke from behind him, a deep and rich baritone which made him jump slightly.
- Sitting on a low stool and cradling his beloved guitar he sang in a rich baritone a mixture of haunting ballads and cheery folk songs.
- We sat there mesmerized by the ringing baritone of his inspired voice, coming, as if from the hollows of a cave from some part of a high mountain range, where civilization could never reach or discover.
- His bass baritone voice has made him a popular figure in churches and concert halls around the district, he has a house in Church Street and has now notched up 40 years in business.
- Or you could board the 165 along Guy and be rattled in your boots by Jacques Roy's big, booming baritone as he sings show tunes in your ear.
- Ian Storey is a wonderfully swaggering Pinkerton and his powerful baritone proves the perfect counterpoint to Butterfly's swooning.
- The only parallel is DeRosa's soft voice, falling somewhere between a baritone and a tenor.
- Crey's voice was a deep baritone that struck her as slightly out of place coming from such a slender build of a man, but what shocked her more was the bow of his head in deference that accompanied his words.
- The group of unaccompanied voices comprises bass, baritone, tenor, mezzo-soprano and soprano.
Synonyms resonant, sonorous, ringing, resounding, reverberating, reverberative, reverberant, reverberatory, carrying, thundering, thunderous, rumbling, roaring - 1.1 A singer with a baritone voice.
Example sentencesExamples - That, if you have - if taking a group of people who are singing - an average cross-section of that population - you're going to find sopranos, altos, mezzos, tenors, baritones, and basses.
- The Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel sang three of Hans Sachs' monologues with a depth of dramatic penetration that was awesome.
- Young baritone Andrew Schroeder has sung the title role in Brussels and New York City, and it sounds like he owns it.
- Devoted to music by American composers, it included songs by John Alden Carpenter and Charles Ives sung by the American baritone Victor Prahl with Messiaen at the piano.
- In an accompanying audio track, a baritone slowly sings the children's lullaby that lent its title to the exhibition.
- Whatever else might ail the music industry, the market is booming in bass baritones.
- Baker responds with two stunning performances, even though I have to overcome my resentment that she's snatched a solo cantata usually taken by baritones and basses.
- Soprano Raquel Lojendio is the lovely soloist in five of the songs; together, she and the baritone also sing a lullaby for the baby Jesus.
- They also allowed the tenor roles of Homonay and Zsupán to be sung by a baritone and a bass-baritone, respectively.
- Technically, Bruce is known as a bass baritone but within that he has been able to sing a variety of roles.
- In this scene, Edgardo and Enrico, both hell-bent on revenge, breathe fire at each other, and Donizetti responds with an appropriately militant duet for tenor and baritone.
- This is the first time I've heard of a baritone singing it.
- Your teachers were all baritones and even your tenor voice has a distinct baritonal touch to it…
- For starters, it isn't often that we hear Falstaff, usually assigned to veteran baritones, sung by a major youthful voice in its prime.
- Bass baritone Donnie Ray Albert imbued each of the five sections with intense, dramatic power.
- The all-male line-up is two countertenors, one tenor, two baritones, and one bass.
- Opera singer Cecilia Bartoli won female artist of the year, with best male artist going to the bass baritone Bryn Terfel.
- There are eight sopranos, four mezzos, one counter-tenor, three tenors, seven baritones, and two basses.
- Not only were we treated to the MMDG Music Ensemble, but live vocals from a soprano, baritone, alto and tenor.
- She is joined by soprano Anny Felbermayer, baritones Josef Metternich and Harald Pröglhöpf, tenor Murray Dickie, and bass Walter Berry.
- 1.2 A part written for a baritone voice.
2usually as modifier An instrument that is second lowest in pitch in its family. Example sentencesExamples - As you might expect there's a droning baritone banjo, playing drawn out notes over a deeper, more stable cello.
- Everything is haunting, from Desmond Shea's baleful trumpet to Chris Mulhauser's baritone guitar, and low frequencies are well catered for.
- Bob Efford offers an impressive baritone sax solo, and if you were curious, Joe Sample's the guy at the organ.
- She's a strange one alright, a former New York street artist who discovered the baritone ukelele, remembered her old violin lessons, and cut an album, No Guts, No Gravy.
- Mr Barnes is one of England's leading baritone, alto and tenor saxophone players.
- Michael, who you may know from his great band La Laque, sings and plays baritone ukulele.
- Ulises Bella is the band's most multi-talented addition, on tenor and baritone sax, piano, requinto harucho, guitar, bass, and clarinet.
- Low instruments such as tuba and baritone horn make a sonic imagining of the hippo.
- The title track - a spacey song - features Matthews alone on electric guitar, while on the sensational ‘Stay Or Leave,’ he experiments with a baritone guitar.
- Rick Turner builds great instruments; he makes all of the weird stuff I love, including an electric mandocello and baritone 12-string.
- When it came to the clarinet family, one must admit that the basset horn does sound a trifle canine, but as with flutes and saxophones, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone or bass always flowed on in logical order.
- With a sudden explosion of baritone sax, trumpet, and guitar - plus a boxful of percussion toys - the whole song is one ecstatic, extended crescendo.
- The various musicians - guitars, drums, recorder, baritone sax, violin - all started playing at once.
- Paul Watson, part of Sparklehorse's touring band, turns up here playing coronet (and baritone guitar on the album's final song).
- The baritone bassoon extended between the bassoon and the contra, and there is even a subcontra bassoon one octave lower than the contra bassoon in exceptionally rare captivity, possibly with a lamp shade.
- In most cases, each song is given melodic depth by MacKaye's baritone guitar and Farina's stripped-kit drumming.
- 2.1 A brass instrument similar to a euphonium, sounding in B flat and used in brass bands.
Example sentencesExamples - Accompanying them were the Bushwack Horns - a four-piece horn section of trumpet, trombone, baritone and alto sax, which played on the band's latest disc Palace Of Gold.
- Ms Laitman's Holocaust, 1944 comprises five songs written for baritone and double bass.
- She also plays baritone for Swindon Brass band and has been sponsored by fellow members and other local musicians.
- In orchestras, they tell viola jokes; in band, they tell baritone jokes.
- Surman explores a Sonny Rollins-like calypso on baritone and English-sounding brass fanfares turning into southern-European folk-dances on soprano sax.
- He asked Auden to write ‘a very quiet little lyric’, which he set for baritone and three clarinets.
- Replaying it, slight flattening of pitch occurs during the Offertoire following the baritone solo, where chorus high notes have minimum instrumental support lower down.
- Roseman shares solo space with the saxophones of Peter Apfelbaum and Chris Potter among others; baritone, flute and trumpet trace languorous melodies, shadow intricate basslines or fire off precise stabs.
- I had a reason to expect much from this work, based on other compositions of his, especially his outstanding Edgar Allan Poe song cycle for baritone and piano Lenoriana.
- ‘I played the baritone back in Glendale,’ I told him.
- John joined the band in 1957 as conductor and served in that role and on the euphonium, baritone and bass until ill health forced his retirement in 2000.
- Their trips ranged from traveling in the back of a convertible and staying in a nice hotel to long, hot bus rides and being lodged in a stockade, said Sandee McClammy, a baritone player from Mesquite, Texas.
Derivatives adjectivebariˈtəʊn(ə)l His voice is almost baritonal, and it lacks Italianate warmth, but this is beautiful singing nevertheless. Example sentencesExamples - The high lying baritonal (almost heldentenor) role of the Emperor is a descendant of Richard Strauss's Emperor in Die Frau ohne Schatten.
- It's fun to hear Price singing ‘He shall feed his flock’ with a baritonal richness that would not have been foreign to Dame Clara Butt.
- Your teachers were all baritones and even your tenor voice has a distinct baritonal touch to it…
- Temkey's commanding vocal declamation and warm, high lying, distinctively French baritonal sound recall Francis Poulenc's collaborator and frequent interpreter Pierre Bernac.
Origin Early 17th century: from Italian baritono, from Greek barutonos, from barus 'heavy' + tonos (see tone). Definition of baritone in US English: baritonenounˈbɛrəˌtoʊnˈberəˌtōn 1An adult male singing voice between tenor and bass. he sang in a rich baritone Example sentencesExamples - On Sings Pajo introduced his shaky baritone to the world along with a new-found talent for writing great rootsy folk.
- His bass baritone voice has made him a popular figure in churches and concert halls around the district, he has a house in Church Street and has now notched up 40 years in business.
- With his rich baritone and powerful stage presence, Davis made his mark as an actor, playwright, and spoken-word artist over a distinguished career that lasted nearly 60 years.
- Sitting on a low stool and cradling his beloved guitar he sang in a rich baritone a mixture of haunting ballads and cheery folk songs.
- Hawley's style, his sturdy baritone singing songs that combine hints of country with pre-rock pop and orchestral flourishes overlaid with healthy dollop of reverb, has a robust appeal.
- My top action hero this week is Dwayne Croft, who sings baritone for the Metropolitan Opera.
- Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise rose up from the congregation, filling the church with strong English baritones and contraltos.
- ‘I can't love you any more,’ I sang in my very best imitation of Bebe Daniels, which isn't very good but then a bass baritone can only do so much in the way of 1940s popular soprano.
- From down the alley they could hear the high-pitched sound of a woman's voice, followed by the rich baritone of man.
- A voice spoke from behind him, a deep and rich baritone which made him jump slightly.
- His voice, a deep baritone of startling beauty, awakened the girl from her lapse.
- Or you could board the 165 along Guy and be rattled in your boots by Jacques Roy's big, booming baritone as he sings show tunes in your ear.
- It was male, a baritone that held a sense of authority.
- Crey's voice was a deep baritone that struck her as slightly out of place coming from such a slender build of a man, but what shocked her more was the bow of his head in deference that accompanied his words.
- Ian Storey is a wonderfully swaggering Pinkerton and his powerful baritone proves the perfect counterpoint to Butterfly's swooning.
- The child's sound had matured into a full, rich baritone.
- His bass baritone is rich and meaty, just like his heart.
- The only parallel is DeRosa's soft voice, falling somewhere between a baritone and a tenor.
- The group of unaccompanied voices comprises bass, baritone, tenor, mezzo-soprano and soprano.
- We sat there mesmerized by the ringing baritone of his inspired voice, coming, as if from the hollows of a cave from some part of a high mountain range, where civilization could never reach or discover.
Synonyms resonant, sonorous, ringing, resounding, reverberating, reverberative, reverberant, reverberatory, carrying, thundering, thunderous, rumbling, roaring - 1.1 A singer with a baritone voice.
Example sentencesExamples - That, if you have - if taking a group of people who are singing - an average cross-section of that population - you're going to find sopranos, altos, mezzos, tenors, baritones, and basses.
- Soprano Raquel Lojendio is the lovely soloist in five of the songs; together, she and the baritone also sing a lullaby for the baby Jesus.
- The Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel sang three of Hans Sachs' monologues with a depth of dramatic penetration that was awesome.
- Baker responds with two stunning performances, even though I have to overcome my resentment that she's snatched a solo cantata usually taken by baritones and basses.
- She is joined by soprano Anny Felbermayer, baritones Josef Metternich and Harald Pröglhöpf, tenor Murray Dickie, and bass Walter Berry.
- The all-male line-up is two countertenors, one tenor, two baritones, and one bass.
- For starters, it isn't often that we hear Falstaff, usually assigned to veteran baritones, sung by a major youthful voice in its prime.
- Whatever else might ail the music industry, the market is booming in bass baritones.
- They also allowed the tenor roles of Homonay and Zsupán to be sung by a baritone and a bass-baritone, respectively.
- In an accompanying audio track, a baritone slowly sings the children's lullaby that lent its title to the exhibition.
- There are eight sopranos, four mezzos, one counter-tenor, three tenors, seven baritones, and two basses.
- Technically, Bruce is known as a bass baritone but within that he has been able to sing a variety of roles.
- Devoted to music by American composers, it included songs by John Alden Carpenter and Charles Ives sung by the American baritone Victor Prahl with Messiaen at the piano.
- This is the first time I've heard of a baritone singing it.
- Opera singer Cecilia Bartoli won female artist of the year, with best male artist going to the bass baritone Bryn Terfel.
- Young baritone Andrew Schroeder has sung the title role in Brussels and New York City, and it sounds like he owns it.
- Not only were we treated to the MMDG Music Ensemble, but live vocals from a soprano, baritone, alto and tenor.
- In this scene, Edgardo and Enrico, both hell-bent on revenge, breathe fire at each other, and Donizetti responds with an appropriately militant duet for tenor and baritone.
- Your teachers were all baritones and even your tenor voice has a distinct baritonal touch to it…
- Bass baritone Donnie Ray Albert imbued each of the five sections with intense, dramatic power.
- 1.2 A part written for a baritone voice.
2in full baritone hornAn instrument that is second lowest in pitch in its family. Example sentencesExamples - In most cases, each song is given melodic depth by MacKaye's baritone guitar and Farina's stripped-kit drumming.
- Michael, who you may know from his great band La Laque, sings and plays baritone ukulele.
- She's a strange one alright, a former New York street artist who discovered the baritone ukelele, remembered her old violin lessons, and cut an album, No Guts, No Gravy.
- With a sudden explosion of baritone sax, trumpet, and guitar - plus a boxful of percussion toys - the whole song is one ecstatic, extended crescendo.
- Ulises Bella is the band's most multi-talented addition, on tenor and baritone sax, piano, requinto harucho, guitar, bass, and clarinet.
- The title track - a spacey song - features Matthews alone on electric guitar, while on the sensational ‘Stay Or Leave,’ he experiments with a baritone guitar.
- When it came to the clarinet family, one must admit that the basset horn does sound a trifle canine, but as with flutes and saxophones, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone or bass always flowed on in logical order.
- The baritone bassoon extended between the bassoon and the contra, and there is even a subcontra bassoon one octave lower than the contra bassoon in exceptionally rare captivity, possibly with a lamp shade.
- Everything is haunting, from Desmond Shea's baleful trumpet to Chris Mulhauser's baritone guitar, and low frequencies are well catered for.
- Rick Turner builds great instruments; he makes all of the weird stuff I love, including an electric mandocello and baritone 12-string.
- Mr Barnes is one of England's leading baritone, alto and tenor saxophone players.
- The various musicians - guitars, drums, recorder, baritone sax, violin - all started playing at once.
- Bob Efford offers an impressive baritone sax solo, and if you were curious, Joe Sample's the guy at the organ.
- As you might expect there's a droning baritone banjo, playing drawn out notes over a deeper, more stable cello.
- Paul Watson, part of Sparklehorse's touring band, turns up here playing coronet (and baritone guitar on the album's final song).
- Low instruments such as tuba and baritone horn make a sonic imagining of the hippo.
- 2.1 A large, valved brass instrument in coiled oval form, used especially in military or street bands.
Example sentencesExamples - He asked Auden to write ‘a very quiet little lyric’, which he set for baritone and three clarinets.
- Ms Laitman's Holocaust, 1944 comprises five songs written for baritone and double bass.
- I had a reason to expect much from this work, based on other compositions of his, especially his outstanding Edgar Allan Poe song cycle for baritone and piano Lenoriana.
- John joined the band in 1957 as conductor and served in that role and on the euphonium, baritone and bass until ill health forced his retirement in 2000.
- ‘I played the baritone back in Glendale,’ I told him.
- Their trips ranged from traveling in the back of a convertible and staying in a nice hotel to long, hot bus rides and being lodged in a stockade, said Sandee McClammy, a baritone player from Mesquite, Texas.
- Accompanying them were the Bushwack Horns - a four-piece horn section of trumpet, trombone, baritone and alto sax, which played on the band's latest disc Palace Of Gold.
- Replaying it, slight flattening of pitch occurs during the Offertoire following the baritone solo, where chorus high notes have minimum instrumental support lower down.
- In orchestras, they tell viola jokes; in band, they tell baritone jokes.
- She also plays baritone for Swindon Brass band and has been sponsored by fellow members and other local musicians.
- Roseman shares solo space with the saxophones of Peter Apfelbaum and Chris Potter among others; baritone, flute and trumpet trace languorous melodies, shadow intricate basslines or fire off precise stabs.
- Surman explores a Sonny Rollins-like calypso on baritone and English-sounding brass fanfares turning into southern-European folk-dances on soprano sax.
adjectiveˈbɛrəˌtoʊnˈberəˌtōn Second lowest in musical pitch. Example sentencesExamples - Initially Cohen's bleak baritone vocal - there's no singing, just his trademark uncompromising conversational drawl - paints a barren, unrewarding landscape.
- The Organ must convince us that reverb-swollen dirges laced with heart-melting baritone vocals are a fresh dish in 2005.
- I headed to the end of the hall, where all the saxophones had congregated, and saw three out of the four different types of saxophones; the baritone, tenor and alto.
- To accommodate this massive ode to chaos, Zimmermann requires an orchestra, two actors, soprano and baritone soloists, three choirs, a jazz combo, and an organ.
- Paul Williams's infectious musical score is lip-synched by the kids, and it's quite comical to hear their normal high-pitched tones give way to deep baritone singing voices during the musical numbers.
- Scored for soprano and baritone soloists, mixed chorus and large orchestra, Air and angels is cast in seven movements and sets passages from John Donne's Holy sonnets and Songs and sonnets.
- Sara slowly lowered herself onto the bench beside him as his baritone voice sang quiet and steady, the words mingling with the intensity of the meaning behind them.
- As guitars wail out of control and gospel choruses wail like baritone banshees, it becomes obvious that screwing and chopping has only begun to touch upon its potential.
- The baritone voice sang the final three words, D D E.
- Got any male friends with deep baritone voices willing to do some phone answering?
- Certainly not for the out actor's wobbly baritone range, though he is undeniably charming as he interprets lines like ‘the way you haunt my dreams.’
- The medieval church knew no choral polyphony, only the ensemble of three or four soloists, drawn from alto, tenor, and baritone voices.
- His post-bop records in recent years show his versatility in playing tenor, soprano, baritone and alto saxophones, and his concert will surely be among the more stimulating at the festival.
- ‘It's the underlying baritone in his tenor that gives his voice the extra power and provides the special touch ’, said a conductor seated in the audience.
- He has been a soloist with the CBSO, Hall and New Philharmonia and sang the baritone solos in the War Requiem performed at Benjamin Britten's memorial concert.
- His voice was not terribly deep, baritone rather than bass, and well-modulated.
- Caught off guard, Olive stared open mouthed at the newcomer as he kept singing his sea shanty in a rich baritone voice, oblivious to his audience.
- International bass baritone singing star Willard White has announced he is to be the patron of a North Yorkshire charity which provides support for special needs children.
- Beans played all of the baritone parts that you remember from the Motown hits.
- The thick baritone delivery of singer Paul Banks could pass him off as an Ian Curtis impersonator, but upon further listens you may begin to think differently.
Origin Early 17th century: from Italian baritono, from Greek barutonos, from barus ‘heavy’ + tonos (see tone). |