What's the difference between baritone and soprano?

Baritone


Definition:

  • (a. & n.) See Barytone.
  • (a.) Grave and deep, as a kind of male voice.
  • (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.

Soprano


Definition:

  • (n.) The treble; the highest vocal register; the highest kind of female or boy's voice; the upper part in harmony for mixed voices.
  • (n.) A singer, commonly a woman, with a treble voice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He'd later carry this over into Netflix's House Of Cards but before that, TV had already begun to emulate this new, bleak, antiheroic maturity with a cycle of dark, longform, acclaimed dramas, commencing with The Sopranos and culminating in Breaking Bad .
  • (2) The following year he played a philosophising, brutal hitman in the film True Romance, written by Quentin Tarantino , which paved the way for his lead role in The Sopranos, the gangster family saga that ran for six seasons from 1999.
  • (3) Adipose tissue has been reported to contain relatively high levels of the specific mRNA for retinol-binding protein (RBP) (Makover A., Soprano, D.R., Wyatt, M. L., and Goodman, D.S.
  • (4) French soprano Natalia Dessay and Lithuanian soprano Violeta Urmana were invited to perform.
  • (5) Dinner guests were serenaded by opera singer Renee Fleming, a triple-Grammy award-winning soprano, who sang Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas and the Puccini aria O Mio Babbino Caro.
  • (6) It was television and Tony Soprano that gained him Emmy awards, three years running, and superstar status, which he never equalled but which sustained his active post-Sopranos life.
  • (7) The auditory signal provided by a soprano recorder in a breathing circuit can help human subjects to regulate inspiratory and expiratory airflow rates at constant preset levels.
  • (8) — Steven Van Zandt (@StevieVanZandt) July 15, 2012 But Van Zandt, who also starred in the US drama series The Sopranos, turned to Twitter in rage.
  • (9) "There are people who act like Tony Soprano, they just aren't in the mafia," says Mondanile.
  • (10) That look will be familiar to fans of the programme that has followed in the footsteps of The Sopranos and The Wire by creating a television drama that, in its complexity and ambition, stands toe-to-toe with any comparable big-screen offering.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Sopranos might be the quintessential Catholic Italian family in American pop culture, but we want to hear from some real life ones!
  • (12) Gandolfini won several awards for his role in The Sopranos, including both the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series.
  • (13) 'There are people who act like Tony Soprano, they just aren't in the mafia … it was filmed around the area where we grew up' – Matthew Mondanile Real Estate.
  • (14) The ideal Isolde is flame-haired, fiery, indomitable yet vulnerable, stern yet tender, and a standout dramatic soprano.
  • (15) 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.'
  • (16) And "Authors Guild" president Roxana Robinson says Amazon is like "Tony Soprano" and "thuggish" .
  • (17) Like The Sopranos, too, it uncannily anticipated a national mood soon to be intensified by current events – in this case the great economic unsettlement of the late 00s, which would leave many previously secure middle-class Americans suddenly feeling like desperate outlaws in their own suburbs.
  • (18) There's a neat video to be found online that compiles every single curse uttered in every single episode of The Sopranos, in chronological order.
  • (19) However, in July the broadcaster stepped up its US acquisitions effort , signing a £150m, five-year deal to acquire the exclusive UK TV rights to US cable channel HBO's entire archive, including The Wire, The Sopranos and Sex and the City, as well as all future shows such as Boardwalk Empire and a first-look deal on all co-productions.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Blake Griffin joins the cast of "The Sopranos."

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