bassos

Shrill female voices battled against rumbling baritones and bassos.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

And then the bassos smote the air with deep sounds:

The Man Who Was Afraid 2003

For three years, he was impresario for Feodor Chaliapin—one of the greatest bassos who ever thrilled the ritzy boxholders at the Metropolitan.

How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie 1981

The sopranos took a B flat on the last note, while the tenors and altos rambled up and down the scale and the bassos bombarded the theme with their deepest chest tones.

Fables For The Times H. W. Phillips

Ivey, a clerk in the employ of Hawes& Ivey - nice and quiet and gentlemanly, and in love with nobody that we knew of - these were the bassos.

Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910

And then the bassos smote the air with deep sounds:

The Man Who Was Afraid Maksim Gorky 1902

The Bishop said that night while Rachel was singing that if the world of sinful, diseased, depraved, lost humanity could only have the gospel preached to it by consecrated prima donnas and professional tenors and altos and bassos, he believed it would hasten the coming of the Kingdom quicker than any other one force.

In His Steps Charles Monroe Sheldon 1901

Usually the three classes of voices receive different treatment, one form of instruction being used for sopranos and tenors, another for mezzo-sopranos and baritones, and a third for altos and bassos.

The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern 1894

In the case of contraltos and bassos, the voice is usually trained from the middle in both directions.

The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern 1894

Pasqualis, Cherubini, Caracciolo (bassos), Signor de Anna (barytone), and Signor Bassetti (tenor), otherwise Mr. Charles Bassett, like Mme. Nevada, an American singer.

Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888