Barbershop music
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Barbershop music is a style of a cappella close harmony and vocal harmony, or unaccompanied vocal music, characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a primarily homorhythmic t
The Dapper Dans barbershop quartet, at Disneyland's Main Street, USA
WPA poster, 1936
The Peerless Quartet in 1922, featuring singers (left to right) John H. Meyer, Henry Burr, Albert Charles Campbell, and Frank Croxton.
Rönninge Show, the highest ever scoring Sweet Adelines International barbershop chorus.
Barbershop Harmony Society
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The Barbershop Harmony Society, legally and historically named the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc., is the first of several organizations
Barbershop music
…four-part harmony, or a barbershop chorus, which closely resembles a choir except for the arranging and performance style of the music. According to the Barbershop Harmony Society (BHS), "Barbershop music features songs with understandable lyrics and easily singable melodies, whose tones clearly define a tonal center and imply…
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