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Play ⓘ Baritone clef C major scale, baritone C-clef. Play ⓘ When the F-clef is placed on the third line, it is called the baritone clef. Baritone clef was used for the left hand of keyboard music (particularly in France; see Bauyn manuscript) and for baritone parts in vocal music. A C-clef on the fifth line creates a staff with identical ...
The baritone is pitched in concert B ♭, meaning that when no valves are actuated, the instrument will produce partials of the B ♭ harmonic series. Music for the baritone horn can be written in either the bass clef or the treble clef. When written in the bass clef, the baritone horn is a non-transposing instrument.
Das Lied von der Erde (The song of the Earth) is an orchestral song cycle for two voices and orchestra written by Gustav Mahler between 1908 and 1909. Described as a symphony when published, it comprises six songs for two singers who alternate movements. Mahler specified that the two singers should be a tenor and an alto, or else a tenor and a ...
A baritone[1] is a type of classical [2] male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice-types. It is the most common male voice. [3][4] The term originates from the Greek βαρύτονος (barýtonos), meaning "heavy sounding".
Four-part harmony using soprano, alto, tenor and bass is a common scoring in classical music, [1][2][3][4] including chorales and most Bach cantatas. [5] The letters of the abbreviation are also used by publishers to describe different scorings for soloists and choirs other than four-part harmony. For example, the listing "STB solos, SATB choir ...
The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B ♭ (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most often used by players in professional orchestras and bands, although the descant and triple horn have become increasingly popular.
The baritone saxophone (sometimes abbreviated to "bari sax") is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass. It is the lowest-pitched saxophone in common use — the bass, contrabass and subcontrabass saxophones are relatively uncommon.
The Toreador Song, also known as the Toreador March, is the popular name for the aria " Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre " ("I return your toast to you"), from the French opera Carmen, composed by Georges Bizet to a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. It is sung by the bullfighter (French: toréador) Escamillo as he enters in act ...