(a.) Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A person having a voice of such range.
(n.) The viola di gamba, now entirely disused.
(n.) A word which has no accent marked on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We have hit upon things here that really do matter – that haven't been given due consideration," he would bark in his distinctive, rapid-fire baritone southern drawl.
(2) As compared to tenor singers higher testosterone and lower oestradiol plasma concentrations were measured in bass and baritone singers.
(3) I told him one day, 'Let's do a small duet of baritone and soprano,' and he said, 'No, no, my fans only know me as a rock singer and they will not recognise my voice if I sing in baritone.'
(4) He's the head of a crew of rappers including Ross, Meek Mill and Wale, named Maybach Music Group after Mercedes's notoriously expensive car, the man who likes to be called "the Boss" – pronounced "Bawse" – and the rapper who since his 2006 breakthrough hit Hustlin' has used his signature bellicose baritone to tell stories of drug dealing and murder that make Tony Montana sound like Alfie Moon.
(5) Jack, played by Bill Tarbey, is a bit of a bar-room baritone.
(6) He conceived Ziggy Stardust as a musical before realising he had to sing it himself, and would later shed his estuary yelp in favour of a neo-operatic baritone; his Presley-like cover of Nina Simone’s Wild Is the Wind became a signature song.
(7) My eldest son dropped his dummy like a stone when warned by our Italian dentist, in a sonorous baritone: "You don't give up your dummy, you look like this …" (pantomiming horrible buck teeth).
(8) But I can't help speculating about his fascination with the ruthless libertine, especially since the cast of Amour includes an operatic baritone who was once a notable Don Giovanni: William Shimell plays Huppert's husband, a philandering musician.
(9) The lyrics reference sexual disease, brown dwarf stars, court jesters and dictators, all delivered in a strangulated baritone, as if Walker's testicles were being squeezed.
(10) In the past Walker has suggested that the baritone can offer a fake emotion; a consolation too easily won.
(11) For one thing, Prince is, by common consent, the one bona-fide, no-further-questions musical genius that 80s pop produced; a man who can play pretty much any instrument he choses, possessed of a remarkable voice that can still leap effortlessly from baritone to falsetto.
(12) He uttered very few words, confirming his age, employment status and address in a timid baritone.
(13) In 1993, Cash's gravelly baritone featured on The Wanderer, from U2's Zooropa album ("I was thrilled to death, because I love that song," Cash enthused), and in 1994 the American Recordings album amounted to a complete reappraisal of the legend of Johnny Cash, and one which found a ready new audience.
(14) Tall and with a haughty baritone not unlike that of his conservative arch-enemy William F Buckley Jr, Vidal appeared cold and cynical on the surface.
(15) Between 1957 and 1962 they enjoyed 19 Top 40 hits, with Phil usually singing the higher part and Don the baritone.
(16) The first thing I noticed was his graciousness, his smile, his reassuring baritone, his deceptive sense of humor – all qualities that helped him wear so effortlessly a heavy burden of expectation.
(17) Green has described the album as "me writing Binki's break-up record and she writing mine", and throughout, Green's strapping baritone acts as ballast to Shapiro's windblown sweetness.
(18) A YouTube video posted earlier this month dubs the hotel mogul’s pronouncements over the deep baritone of James Earl Jones, who voiced Darth Vader in the original trilogy.
(19) On the telephone from Barcelona, she says: "He had a baritone voice.
(20) People do feel a warmth with baritone voices that they don't feel with others.
Contralto
Definition:
(n.) The part sung by the highest male or lowest female voices; the alto or counter tenor.
(n.) the voice or singer performing this part; as, her voice is a contralto; she is a contralto.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a contralto, or to the part in music called contralto; as, a contralto voice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Amy Winehouse , the tiny woman with the contralto voice, was mumbling her way through some of her most famous lyrics and managing only a few strained notes as she stumbled around a stage in Belgrade, apparently drunk.
(2) And then as they sing all that from the mountain top, in October there comes an answering contralto – Jeremy Hunt, the Tories' shadow culture secretary, says: "[We will have] a very fundamental root-and-branch discussion with the BBC about all its activities across the piece."