Male voice pitched between bass and tenor, of approximate range G2F4. It is also used before the name of an instrument, for example baritone saxophone, and indicates that the instrument sounds in approximately the same range.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Hermann Prey are well-known German baritone singers. Baritone is also the name of a valved brass instrument of the saxhorn family, similar in pitch to the euphonium.
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