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      • A barber is a person whose occupation is mainly to cut, dress, groom, style and shave hair or beards. A barber's place of work is known as a barbershop or the barber's. Barbershops have been noted places of social interaction and public discourse since at least classical antiquity. In some instances, barbershops were also public forums.
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  2. Barbershop music. Barbershop vocal harmony is a style of a cappella close harmony, or unaccompanied vocal music, characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a primarily homorhythmic texture. [1][2][3] Each of the four parts has its own role: generally, the lead sings the melody, the tenor harmonizes above the melody ...

    • What Is Barbershop Music? Where Did It Come from? How Is It Arranged and Sung?
    • The Basics
    • Looking Back at Barbershop’s Foundations

    You’ve joined the Barbershop Harmony Society. You might have instead joined a church choir, a symphonic chorus, or musical theater group… but here you are in a barbershop group! What have you gotten yourself into? What kind of music will you experience, how do you distinguish it from other vocal music, and where did it come from? And why does it ma...

    Barbershop harmony is generally considered to be one of the few uniquely American-born musical styles, alongside jazz, with which it shares origins. The simplest definition of barbershop centers around: 1. relatively simple melodies, 2. sung in four-part harmony, 3. without instruments (a cappella) 4. with the melody carried in the second-highest v...

    Continuing academic researchconfirms that the musical tradition that we call “barbershop” takes its roots in the African-American improvisational traditions of the late 19th century, notably in the South, particularly New Orleans. Yes, barbershops were a gathering place, and certainly close-harmony experimentation took place there. But the instrume...

  3. barbershop quartet singing, typically all-male or all-female popular choral form characterized by a capella singing, with three voices harmonizing to the melody of a fourth voice.

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  4. What is Barbershop? We know that music genres seldom fall within strict definitions. But there are certain things that are usually true about Barbershop: Four parts.

  5. A barbershop quartet is a group of four singers who sing music in the barbershop style, characterized by four-part harmony without instrumental accompaniment, or a cappella.

  6. Barbershop is a style of arranging in close, four part, a cappella harmony; it is not an era, style of music, or genre. The melody is usually in the second voice with harmony above and below.

  7. What is Barbershop Harmony and How Did it All Begin? Barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied vocal music characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a primarily homorhythmic (the same word sounds at the same time) texture.

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