Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/B/Barytone

by John Weeks Moore

Barytone, or BARITONE. This word means literally deep-toned, pertaining to or noting a grave, deep sound, or male voice. The barytone is the lowest but one, of the six registers, into which the scale of the human voice is commonly divided. It is, perhaps, the most common kind of male voice, lying between the bass and the tenor as to compass, and corresponding, at the distance of an octave, with the mezzo soprano, or middle female voice.