baritone

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We are at Como, on the lake—that spot so beloved of opera dancers—the day-dream of prima donnas—the Elysium of retired barytones!

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James

So little are the voice and its capabilities understood in this country, that instances might be mentioned where basses were mistaken for barytones, barytones for tenors, and contraltos for sopranos.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various

He announced the engagement of "the greatest sopranos, mezzo sopranos, contraltos, barytones, and bassos of the operatic world."

From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Krehbiel, Henry Edward

"Well, what is it, Son?" says he in one of them deep barytones that you feel all the way through to your backbone.

From On With Torchy by Lincoln, Foster

Men sing mostly in the chest register; basses and barytones wholly so, with the rarest exceptions.

From Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) by Mills, Wesley