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  2. By Footpath and Stile - Wikipedia

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    By Footpath and Stile is the earliest of the six song cycles by Finzi set to poems by Thomas Hardy, who was Finzi's favourite poet. During the course of his career he set over fifty of Hardy's poems. [3] Composed in 1921-1922, it was premiered on 24 October 1923 by the baritone Sumner Austin and the Charles Woodhouse String Quartet in a British ...

  3. Baritone saxophone - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. List of baritones in non-classical music - Wikipedia

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    For classical and operatic singers, their voice type determines the roles they will sing and is a primary method of categorization. In non-classical music, singers are defined by their genre and their gender and not by their vocal range.[2] When the terms soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, tenor, baritone, and bassare used as descriptors of non ...

  5. Baritone - Wikipedia

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    e. 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".

  6. Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad - Wikipedia

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    Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad. Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad is a song cycle for baritone and piano composed in 1911 by George Butterworth (1885–1916). It consists of settings of six poems from A. E. Housman 's 1896 collection A Shropshire Lad. Butterworth set another five poems from A Shropshire Lad in Bredon Hill and Other Songs (1912).

  7. Saxophone - Wikipedia

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    The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to produce a sound wave inside the instrument's body. The pitch is controlled by opening and closing holes ...

  8. List of compositions by Ralph Vaughan Williams - Wikipedia

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    Two Vocal Duets, for soprano, baritone and violin with piano, setting texts by Walt Whitman (1904) Songs of Travel, song cycle for baritone and piano, setting texts by R. L. Stevenson (1901–04). Includes "The Vagabond". Songs 1 3 8 arranged for baritone and orchestra (1905)

  9. Baritone horn - Wikipedia

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    Musical instruments. The baritone horn, sometimes called baritone, is a low-pitched brass instrument in the saxhorn family. [2] It is a piston-valve brass instrument with a bore that is mostly conical, like the smaller and higher pitched flugelhorn and tenor horn, but it has a narrower bore compared to the similarly pitched euphonium.