Shrill female voices battled against rumbling baritones and bassos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

For three years, he was impresario for Feodor Chaliapin—one of the greatest bassos who ever thrilled the ritzy boxholders at the Metropolitan.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Win Friends and Influence People] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fables For The Times] Reference

And then the bassos smote the air with deep sounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Was Afraid] Reference

In the case of contraltos and bassos, the voice is usually trained from the middle in both directions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern] Reference

He announced the engagement of "the greatest sopranos, mezzo sopranos, contraltos, barytones, and bassos of the operatic world.".    From Wordnik.com.  [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] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,] Reference

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

It was a great favorite with Lablache, and its magnificent performance by Grisi, Mario, Tamburini, and the king of bassos, is a gala reminiscence of English and French opera-goers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Italian and French Composers]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern] Reference

We used to sing -- all of us together -- upon the country porch on summer nights, not disdaining "Nelly Was a Lady" and the "Old Kentucky Home," and sea songs and love songs and battle songs that had thundering choruses in which bassos told mightily.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [In His Steps] Reference

"Blessing and Honor," a fugue led off by the tenors and bassos in unison, and repeated by the sopranos and altos on the octave, closing with full harmony on the words "for ever and ever" several times reiterated; and the final, "Amen" chorus, which is treated in the severest style, and in which the composer evidently gave free rein to his genius, not being hampered with the trammels of words.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers] Reference

I've never been to an opera. sopranos make my ears bleed and tenors, baritones and bassos add basso profundo to that make me all sleepy and stuff.    From Wordnik.com.  [L'elisir d'Amore] Reference

“And so I turned, canny for my years, from the professors to the poets, listening — to the lyric tenor of Swinburne and the tenor robusto of Shelley, to Shakespeare with his first bass and his fine range, to Tennyson with his second bass and his occasional falsetto, to Milton and Marlow, bassos profundo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference

Marlow, bassos profundo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference

We could always find bassos and tenors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War] Reference

Reschiglian, Mario Ancona, Hector Dufranne, Nicolo Fossetta; bassos.    From Wordnik.com.  [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] Reference