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BARYTONE, or BARITONE (Ital. baritone, from Gr. Oapbrovos, deep sounding)

BARYTONE, or BARITONE (Ital. baritone, from Gr. Oapbrovos, deep See also:
SOUNDING (for derivation see SOUND above)
sounding) , a musical See also:

TERM

term for the male See also:

VOICE (Fr. voix, from Lat. vox)

voice whose range lies between those of the See also:

TENOR (through Fr. and It. from Lat. tenor, holding on, course, sense of a law, tone)

tenor and of the See also:

bass—a high bass rather than a See also:

low tenor; also the name of an obsolete stringed See also:

INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument like the See also:

VIOLA [Fr. viole, Ger. Bratsche, Ital. viola, alto]

viola da Gamba, and of the small Bb or C See also:

SAXHORN

saxhorn .

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