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barytone
Word definitions for barytone in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barytone \Bar"y*tone\, Baritone \Bar"i*tone\, n. [F. baryton: cf. It. baritono.] (Mus.) 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. A person having ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a male singer [syn: baritone ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context linguistics English) Of or pertaining to a barytone word; not having an accent on the ultimate syllable. 2 (archaic form of baritone English) n. 1 (context linguistics English) A word that is not accented on the ultimate syllable. 2 (context ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In Ancient Greek grammar , a barytone is a word without any accent on the last syllable . Words with an acute or circumflex on the second-to-last or third-from-last syllable are barytones, as well as words with no accent on any syllable: τις "someone" (unaccented) ...
Usage examples of barytone.
Varesi, the barytone, who was intrusted with the part of the elder Germont, had been disaffected, because he thought it beneath his dignity.
More ballad-concerts, more quaint English, more robustious barytone songs, more piecemeal pictures, more colonial poetry, more young nations with withered traditions.
He sang them softly, but his beautifully modulated barytone carried well, and every syllable reached her.
The man struck the opening chords, and in a high barytone, and in a cockney accent that made even the accompanist grin, Ford lifted his voice.
Garcia was a tenor with a voice sufficiently deep to enable him to sing the barytone part of Don Giovanni in Paris and at subsequent performances in London.
From a window opening upon a balcony overhead came the clear notes of a barytone voice enunciating the oldfashioned words of an English ballad, the refrain of which expressed hopeless separation.
For one of the New York demonstrations the services of a negro singer with a rich barytone voice had been secured.
The man struck the opening chords, and in a high barytone, and in a cockney accent that made even the accompanist grin, Ford lifted his voice.
Not that one that should undervalue the half-recitative of doubtful barytones, or the brilliant escapades of slightly unmanageable falsettos, or the concentrated efforts of the proprietors of two or three effective notes, who may be observed lying in wait for them, and coming down on them with all their might, and the look on their countenances of "I too am a singer.