The Dapper Dans, a barbershop quartet at Disney World

Barbershop harmony, as codified during the barbershop revival era (1940s-present), is a style of a cappella, or unaccompanied vocal music characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a predominantly homophonic texture. Each of the four parts has its own role: generally, the lead sings the melody, the tenor harmonizes above the melody, the bass sings the lowest harmonizing notes, and the baritone completes the chord. The melody is not usually sung by the tenor or bass, except for an infrequent note or two to avoid awkward voice leading, in tags or codas, or when some appropriate embellishing effect can be created. Occasional brief passages may be sung by fewer than four voice parts. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 876 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Barbershop music Old Timeyness User:HouseOfScandal/Old Timeyness Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 876 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Barbershop music Old Timeyness User:HouseOfScandal/Old Timeyness Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the... The Dapper Dans are a barbershop quartet that performs at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, and at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. ... Cinderella Castle is the symbol of Magic Kingdom The Spaceship Earth geodesic sphere is the symbol of Epcot The Sorcerers Hat is the symbol of Disney-MGM Studios The Tree of Life is the symbol of Disneys Animal Kingdom Walt Disney World Resort is the largest and most... Harmony is the use and study of pitch simultaneity, and therefore chords, actual or implied, in music. ... A cappella music is vocal music or singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. ... Vocal music is music performed by one or more singers, with or without non-vocal instrumental accompaniment, in which singing provides the main focus of the piece. ... In music, a consonance (Latin consonare, sounding together) is a harmony, chord, or interval considered stable, as opposed to a dissonance, which is considered unstable. ... Typical fingering for a second inversion C major chord on a guitar. ... In music, the word texture is often used in a rather vague way in reference to the overall sound of a piece of music. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... This article is about Tenor vocalists in music. ... A bass (or basso in Italian) is a male singer who sings in the deepest vocal range of the human voice. ... Baritone (French: ; German: ; Italian: ) is most commonly the type of male voice that lies between bass and tenor. ... In music, voice leading is the continuity between pitches or notes played successively in time. ...

According to the Barbershop Harmony Society, The Barbershop Harmony Society, legally and historically named the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. ...

Barbershop music features songs with understandable lyrics and easily singable melodies, whose tones clearly define a tonal center and imply major and minor chords and barbershop (dominant and secondary dominant) seventh chords that resolve primarily around the circle of fifths, while making frequent use of other resolutions. Barbershop music also features a balanced and symmetrical form, and a standard meter. The basic song and its harmonization are embellished by the arranger to provide appropriate support of the song's theme and to close the song effectively.

Barbershop singers adjust pitches to achieve perfectly tuned chords in just intonation while remaining true to the established tonal center. Artistic singing in the barbershop style exhibits a fullness or expansion of sound, precise intonation, a high degree of vocal skill, and a high level of unity and consistency within the ensemble. Ideally, these elements are natural, unmanufactured, and free from apparent effort.

The presentation of barbershop music uses appropriate musical and visual methods to convey the theme of the song and provide the audience with an emotionally satisfying and entertaining experience. The musical and visual delivery is from the heart, believable, and sensitive to the song and its arrangement throughout. The most stylistic presentation artistically melds together the musical and visual aspects to create and sustain the illusions suggested by the music. In music theory, the circle of fifths (or cycle of fifths) is an imaginary geometrical space that depicts relationships among the 12 equal-tempered pitch classes comprising the familiar chromatic scale. ... In music, just intonation, also called rational intonation, is any musical tuning in which the frequencies of notes are related by ratios of whole numbers. ...

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Slower barbershop songs often eschew a continuous beat, and notes are often held (or sped up) ad libitum.

The voice parts in men's barbershop singing do not correspond closely to the correspondingly-named voice parts in classical music. Barbershop singing is performed both by men's and women's groups; the elements of the barbershop style and the names of the voice parts are the same for both.

Ringing chords

The defining characteristic of the barbershop style is the ringing chord. This is a name for one specific and well-defined acoustical effect, also referred to as expanded sound, the angel's voice, the fifth voice, or the overtone. (The barbershopper's "overtone" is not the same as the acoustic physicist's overtone which is known as heterodyning). Approximate harmonic overtones on a string An overtone is a natural resonance or vibration frequency of a system. ... In telecommunications, to heterodyne is to generate new frequencies by mixing two or more signals in a nonlinear device such as a vacuum tube, transistor, or diode mixer. ...

The physics and psychophysics of the effect are fairly well understood; it occurs when the upper harmonics in the individual voice notes, and the sum and difference frequencies resulting from nonlinear combinations within the ear, reinforce each other at a particular frequency, strengthening it so that it stands out separately above the blended sound. The effect is audible only on certain kinds of chords, and only when all voices are equally rich in harmonics and very precisely tuned and balanced. It is not heard in chords sounded on keyboard instruments, due to the slight tuning imperfection of the equal-tempered scale. It is for this reason that barbershoppers typically use a pitchpipe for tuning instead of keyboard instruments, though some are known to use a tuning fork. Also called a Tartini tone, a combination tone is a usually lower pitch produced inside the inner ear by the presence of two external pitches. ... A pitchpipe is a small device which may be described as a musical instrument, although it is not actually used to play music as such. ... A tuning fork is a simple metal two-pronged fork with the tines formed from a U-shaped bar of elastic material (usually steel). ...

Gage Averill writes that "Barbershoppers have become partisans of this acoustic phenomenon" and that "the more experienced singers of the barbershop revival (at least after the 1940s) have self-consciously tuned their dominant seventh and tonic chords in just intonation to maximize the overlap of common overtones."^[2] In music, just intonation, also called rational intonation, is any musical tuning in which the frequencies of notes are related by ratios of whole numbers. ...

What is prized is not so much the "overtone" itself, but a unique sound whose achievement is most easily recognized by the presence of the "overtone." The precise synchronization of the waveforms of the four voices simultaneously creates the perception of a "fifth voice" while at the same time melding the four voices into a unified sound. The ringing chord is qualitatively different in sound from an ordinary musical chord e.g. as sounded on a keyboard instrument.

Most elements of the "revivalist" style are related to the desire to produce these ringing chords. Performance is a cappella to prevent the distracting introduction of equal-tempered intonation, and because listening to anything but the other three voices interferes with a performer's ability to tune with the precision required. Barbershop arrangements stress chords and chord progressions that favor "ringing," at the expense of suspended and diminished chords and other harmonic vocabulary of the ragtime and jazz ages.

The dominant seventh-type chord... is so important to barbershop harmony that it is called the "barbershop seventh..." [SPEBSQSA (now BHS)] arrangers believe that a song should contain dominant seventh chords anywhere from 35 to 60 percent of the time (measured as a percentage of the duration of the song rather than a percentage of the chords present) to sound "barbershop."

Historically barbershoppers may have used the word "minor chord" in a way that is confusing to those with musical training. Averill suggests that it was "a shorthand for chord types other than major triads," and says that the use of the word for "dominant seventh-type chords and diminished chords" was common in the late nineteenth century. A 1900 song called "Play That Barber-Shop Chord" (often cited as an early example of "barbershop" in reference to music) contains the lines:

'Cause Mister when you start that minor part

I feel your fingers slipping and a grasping at my heart,

Oh Lord play that Barber shop chord!

Averill notes the hints of rapture, "quasi-religion" and erotic passion in the language used by barbershoppers to describe the emotional effect. He quotes Jim Ewin as reporting "a tingling of the spine, the raising of the hairs on the back of the neck, the spontaneous arrival of 'goose flesh' on the forearm.... [the 'fifth note' has] almost 'mysterious propensities...' It's the 'consummation' devoutly wished by those of us who love Barbershop harmony. If you ask us to explain ... why we love it so, we are hard put to answer; 'that's where our faith takes over.'" Averill notes too the use of the language of addiction, "there's this great big chord that gets people hooked." An early manual was entitled "A Handbook for Adeline Addicts."

He notes too that "barbershoppers almost never speak of 'singing' a chord, but almost always draw on a discourse of physical work and exertion; thus, they 'hit,' 'chop,' 'ring,' 'crack,' and 'swipe....' ....vocal harmony... is interpreted as an embodied musicking. Barbershoppers never lose sight (or sound) of its physicality."

Historical origins

Polk Miller's Old South Quartet, 1900-1912

As a result of scholarship by Lynn Abbott and Dr. Jim Henry it is now generally accepted that barbershop singing originated in African American communities in the U.S. around the turn of the 20th century, where barbershops were, and remain today, social gathering places. The tight, four-part harmony of the form has its roots in the black church, where close harmony has a long tradition.^[3] Image File history File links Old_South_Quartet. ... Image File history File links Old_South_Quartet. ... Polk Miller Polk Miller was a pharmacist and musician from Richmond and Bon Air, Virginia. ... Pictured left to right: Jim Henry, Rob Henry, Buckner, and Knight The Gas House Gang barbershop quartet started singing together in 1987. ... An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... A.U.M.P. Church AME Church National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. ...

The first uses of the term were associated with African Americans. Henry notes that "The Mills Brothers learned to harmonize in their father's barber shop in Piqua, Ohio. Several other well-known African American gospel quartets were founded in neighborhood barber shops, among them the New Orleans Humming Four, the Southern Stars and the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartette."^[4]. Although the Mills Brothers are primarily known as jazz and pop artists and usually performed with instrumental accompaniment, the affinity of their harmonic style with that of the barbershop quartet is clearly in evidence in their music and most notably, perhaps, in their best-known gospel recording, "Jesus Met the Woman at the Well", performed a cappella. Their father founded a barbershop quartet, the Four Kings of Harmony, and the Mills Brothers produced at least three records in which they sang a cappella and performed traditional barbershop material. The Mills Brothers were a major African-American jazz and pop vocal quartet of the 20th century producing more than 2,000 recordings that sold more than 50 million copies and garnered at least three dozen gold records. ...

Barbershop harmonies remain in evidence in the a capella music of the black church. The popular, Christian a capella group Take 6^[5] started in 1980 as The Gentleman's Estate Quartet with the tight, four-part harmony by which barbershop music is known. Early on, the quartet added a fifth harmonic line, but the group's pedigree, like barbershop music, is traceable directly to the black church--and the jazzy renditions of artists like the Mills Brothers, as well. Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations · Other religions Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Archbishop of Canterbury · Catholic Pope Coptic Pope · Ecumenical Patriarch Christianity Portal This box:      Christianity is... Take 6 is an American a cappella gospel music sextet formed in 1985 on the campus of Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ...

• Abbott, Lynn. Play That Barber Shop Chord: A Case for the African American Origin of Barbershop Harmony. American Music 10 (1992) 289-325.
• Henry, James Earl. The Origins of Barbershop Harmony: A Study of Barbershop's Links to Other African American Musics as Evidenced through Recordings and Arrangements of Early Black and White Quartets. Ph. D diss., Washington University, 2000

Female Barbershop music and "Beautyshop" quartets

Traditionally, the word "barbershop" has been used to encompass both men's and women's quartets singing in the barbershop style. Harmony, Inc. calls itself "International Organization of Women Barbershop Singers" while Sweet Adelines International calls itself "a worldwide organization of women singers committed to advancing the musical art form of barbershop harmony." This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

Some women's quartets, particularly in U. S. schools, have used the term "beautyshop quartets" for women's quartets singing in the barbershop style.

Notable female quartets include:

• The Cracker Jills^[6] with Renee Craig
• Ambiance^[7]
• The Chordettes, who recorded a number of mainstream popular hits during the 1950s, notably Mr. Sandman

Barbershop groups with both male and female members are known as mixed barbershop groups.^[8] The Chordettes was a female popular singing quartet, usually singing a cappella, and specializing in traditional pop music. ...

Organization

Singing a cappella music in the barbershop style is a hobby enjoyed by men and women worldwide. The hobby is practiced mostly within one of the three main barbershop associations, which have a combined membership in the neighborhood of eighty thousand. A cappella music is vocal music or singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. ...

The primary men's organization in the US and Canada is the Barbershop Harmony Society. Women have two organizations in North America, Sweet Adelines International and Harmony Incorporated. Sweet Adelines, Inc was founded in 1945 by Edna Mae Anderson of Tulsa. Harmony, Incorporated split from Sweet Adelines in 1957 over a dispute regarding admission of black members. SPEBSQSA and Sweet Adelines at that time restricted their membership to whites, but both opened membership to all races a few years later. All three organizations comprise choruses and quartets that perform and compete regularly throughout the US and Canada, and Sweet Adelines International also has a portion of its membership outside North America. The Barbershop Harmony Society, legally and historically named the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

Organizations affiliated with the Barbershop Harmony Society and Harmony Incorporated exist in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, South Africa, Scandinavia, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and elsewhere. Some national and regional barbershop groups include: Motto: Je Maintiendrai (Dutch: Ik zal handhaven, English: I Shall Uphold) Anthem: Wilhelmus van Nassouwe Capital Amsterdam1 Largest city Amsterdam Official language(s) Dutch2 Government Parliamentary democracy Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Beatrix  - Prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende Independence Eighty Years War   - Declared July 26, 1581   - Recognised January 30, 1648 (by Spain... For other uses, see Scandinavia (disambiguation). ...

• Sweet Adelines International (SAI) [1]
• Harmony, Inc. (HI) [2]
• Barbershop in Germany (BinG) [3]
• British Association of Barbershop Singers (BABS) [4]
• Ladies Association of British Barbershop Singers (LABBS) [5]
• Dutch Association of Barbershop Singers (DABS) [6]
• Ladies Association of Dutch Barbershop Singers (Holland Harmony) [7]
• Society of Nordic Barbershop Singers (SNOBS) [8]
• Southern Part of Africa Tonsorial Singers (SPATS)
• New Zealand Association of Barbershop Singers (NZABS) [9]
• Australian Association of Men's Barbershop Singers (AAMBS) [10]
• Irish Association of Barbershop Singers (IABS) [11]

A worldwide association for mixed groups, the Mixed Harmony Barbershop Quartet Association [12], was established in 1995 to reflect the growing popularity of male-female barbershop singing. This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Barbershop in Germany (abbreviated BinG or BinG!) is the association for barbershop music in Germany. ... The British Association of Barbershop Singers (BABS) is a British organization of male barbershop singers. ... Ladies Association of British Barbershop Singers is the largest ladies barbershop association in the UK, this year topping 1800 members. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ...

Notable artists

Quartets

• Acoustix, 1990 International Quartet Champions
• American Quartet
• The Boston Common (quartet), 1980 International Quartet Champions. Many (including FRED) believe they should have won much earlier. To quote a FRED song, "They won in 74 and 75 and 77 and 78 and 79 and finally in 80. What were you thinking!?"
• The Buffalo Bills, 1950 International Quartet Champions, appeared in stage and screen productions of The Music Man, frequently appeared on Arthur Godfrey's radio show
• The Dapper Dans of Disneyland, regularly appearing at Disneyland and Disneyworld, as The Be Sharps in a Simpsons episode, and as the Singing Busts in Disney's 2003 Haunted Mansion movie
• The Fishbowl Boys, started in 2006, one of South Australia's youngest quartets, and current Australian school barbershop champions^[9]
• Four Voices, 2002 International Quartet Champions
• FRED, 1999 International Quartet Champions, Comedy Quartet
• The Gas House Gang, 1993 International Quartet Champions (from St. Louis, Missouri)
• Gotcha!, 2004 International Quartet Champions
• Happiness Emporium[13], 1975 International Quartet Champions - Still active and performing
• The Haydn Quartet, early 1900s quartet
• Max Q (quartet), 2007 International Quartet Champions
• Metropolis, International Medalist Quartet (2002-2006), 1998 Grand National A Cappella Champions (Harmony Sweepstakes), Popular Comedy Quartet
• Michigan Jake, 2001 International Quartet Champions
• Nightlife, 1996 International Quartet Champions, all four were members of the Masters of Harmony (see choruses below) at the time of their win in Salt Lake City, UT. Only the second quartet to achieve this honour (first was Bluegrass Student Union).
• Platinum, 2000 International Quartet Champions
• Power Play, 2003 International Quartet Champions
• Realtime, 2005 International Quartet Champions
• Reprise, 2001 International Collegiate Champions
• The Singing Senators, a quartet of Republican U.S. Senators
• The Suntones, 1961 International Quartet Champions
• Vocal Spectrum[14], 2004 collegiate champions and 2006 International Quartet Champions

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Choruses

• The Vocal Majority [15], based in Dallas, TX, Eleven-time International Chorus Champions (1975, 1979, 1982, 1985, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2006)
• The Morris Music Men [16] Premier Barbershop Chorus of Morris County, New Jersey.
• The Masters of Harmony [17], Six-time International Chorus Champions (1990, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005). The only repeat International Championship Chorus ever to earn every Gold Medal in succession, each time they were eligible to compete. Based in Los Angeles County.
• The Louisville Thoroughbreds [18], Seven-time International Chorus Champions
• The New Tradition Chorus [19], based out of Northbrook, IL. They are the 2001 International Chorus Champion and current 4th place bronze medalist. Won a record eight consecutive silver medals.
• The Ambassadors of Harmony[20], based in St Charles, MO, 2004 International Chorus Champions.
• The Alexandria Harmonizers [21], based in Alexandria, VA, Four-time International Chorus Champions.
• Toronto Northern Lights [22], Five-time International Silver Medalist (2001-2005) Chorus from Toronto, Ontario, and 3rd Place Bronze Medalist (2006).
• The Westminster Chorus [23], a Youth barbershop chorus in California started by young members of the Masters of Harmony, and current International Chorus Champion (2007).
• Music Central [24], based in Oklahoma City, OK, an up and coming chorus with a lot of potential, and won district competition only 3 years after its inception.
• The Midwest Vocal Express [25], perennial International Top 10 chorus, based in the Milwaukee, WI area. Known for innovative and creative performances, directed for years by Russ Forris, and currently directed by Chris Peterson. Fifth-Place Bronze Medalists in 2002, 2003 and 2006.
• Pacific Coast Harmony [26], Two-time International competitor based in La Jolla, California, under the direction of three-time International quartet champion Kim Hulbert.
• Westchester Chordsmen, Buckeye Invitational Championship Chorus with 100 voices based in the Greater New York City Area. Currently Directed by Dusty Schleier. Previously known for memorable comedic performances in the Mid-Atlantic District of the Barbershop Harmony Society.
• Chorus of the Chesapeake [27], two-time International Champion chorus, based in the Baltimore, MD area. Known for being a large chorus numerically, creative musical selection, directed for many years by the legendary Fred King. Currently under the direction of Rick Taylor.
• The Big Apple Chorus [28], based out of Manhattan has competed internationally, performed in Russia, and makes up the "Singing Chorus Tree" at South Street Seaport every holiday season.
• The Sound of the Rockies [29], a Denver, Colorado-based chorus that has won the Rocky Mountain District championship 4 times and placed in the top 10 at International the past 5 years running. Currently the 2007 third place bronze medal chorus. Directed by Darin Drown.
• The Singing Buckeyes [30], based in Columbus, Ohio, are eleven-time Johnny Appleseed District (Ohio, the western part of Pennsylvania and most of West Virginia) Chorus Champions. They have competed many times at the international level, achieving Third Place Bronze Medal. The chapter hosts the Buckeye Invitational each August.
• The Singing Cedars, based in Lebanon, Pennsylvania were established in the 1950's.
• The Southern Gateway Chorus [31], based in Cincinnati, Ohio, "in the medals" since 1970, and holder of more bronze, silver, and 2 gold medals than any other chorus.
• The Texas Millionaires Chorus [32], based in Fort Worth, Texas, an internationally ranked chorus known for their famous "scarecrow" package in 2005
• Cambridge Chord Company, twice European champion barbershop chorus and British Association of Barbershop Singers gold medalists, "Choir of the World" International Eisteddfod 2004, based in England
• The Great Northern Union [33], perennial international top 10 chorus, based in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area
• Voices In Harmony[34], a brand new chorus developing in California's Bay Area, under the direction of Dr. Greg Lyne.
• Pacific Sound Chorus[35], An award-winning small chorus in Ventura, California.
• North Metro Chorus, three-time Sweet Adelines International Chorus Champions from Toronto, OntarioDirected by June Dale.
• The Rich-Tone Chorus[36], four-time Sweet Adelines International Chorus Champions from Richardson, Texas
• Surrey Harmony Chorus[37], Five-time Sweet Adelines Region 31 UK Gold Medal Champions.
• Melodeers Chorus, from Northbrook, IL Four time Sweet Adelines International Gold Medal winning chorus. Only Sweet Adelines Chorus ever to have won four gold medals in row. Jim Arns, Director; Reneé Porzel, Choreographer
• B Natural Ladies Barbershop Chorus[38], Three-time winners of Sweet Adelines Region 31 Best Small Chorus, Cardigan, Wales.
• The Georgetown Chimes, an all-male quartet group founded at Georgetown University in 1946.
• The Gentlemen Songsters Chorusof the Detroit-Oakland Chapter, Pioneer District. Chartered in 1939!
• Pride of Baltimore Chorus, from Baltimore, MD. Award-winning chorus chartered in 1993, first winners of Harmony Classic (known as Small Chorus Festival in 1996). Under the direction of Janet Ashford.

List of Barbershop choruses by location The Vocal Majority (VM) is a Dallas, Texas-based mens chorus of over 150 singers, billed as the premier pops chorus in America. ... Dallas redirects here. ... The Masters of Harmony are a 135-member mens a cappella chorus, based in Santa Fe Springs, California. ... The Thoroughbreds Chorus The Louisville Thoroughbreds are a mens chorus based in Louisville, KY. They are an 7-time International Champion chorus of the Barbershop Harmony Society, winning the Gold Medal in 1962, 1966, 1969, 1974, 1978, 1981, and 1984. ... The New Tradition Chorus, 2005 The New Traditon Chorus is a mens Barbershop chorus based in Northbrook, IL, in the Chicagoland area. ... Northbrook is a village located in Cook County, Illinois. ... The Ambassadors of Harmony The Ambassadors of Harmony (AOH) are a 150-member mens barbershop chorus, based in St. ... The Alexandria Harmonizers are an international champion barbershop chorus, founded on 1948-06-29 and based in Alexandria, Virginia. ... The Toronto Northern Lights is a Toronto, Ontario-based mens chorus of about 50 singers drawn from the Ontario District of the Barbershop Harmony Society. ... The Westminster Chorus, 2006 The Westminster Chorus (formerly known as the Harmony Showcase Chorus) is a mens a cappella chorus based in Westminster, CA. They are a chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society and are composed almost entirely of men under the age of 30. ... This article is about a mens chorus. ... The State Capitol of Oklahoma Looking at Downtown Oklahoma City The Flag of Oklahoma City Oklahoma City (sometimes abbreviated as OKC) is the capitol and largest city of the state of Oklahoma in the United States of America. ... Pacific Coast Harmony is the La Jolla, CA Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society. ... The Chorus of the Chesapeake is a mens a cappella chorus, based in Dundalk, Maryland. ... This article is about the city in the US state of Maryland. ... The Big Apple Chorus is a barbershop chorus based in Manhattan, New York. ... For other uses, see Manhattan (disambiguation). ... A view of the South Street Seaport in New York with the Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Williamsburg bridges. ... The Sound of the Rockies The Sound of the Rockies (SOR) is an a cappella mens chorus based in greater Denver, Colorado. ... Nickname: Location of Denver in Colorado Location of Colorado in the United States Coordinates: , Country State City-County Denver (coextensive) Founded [1] November 22, 1858 Incorporated November 7, 1861 Government  - Type Strong Mayor/Weak Council  - Mayor John Hickenlooper (D) Area [1]  - City & County  154. ... The Columbus, OH Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society and its performing chorus, The Singing Buckeyes, have been in existence since their chartering in 1950. ... Nickname: Location in the state of Ohio, USA Coordinates: , Country State Counties Franklin, Delaware, and Fairfield Government  - Mayor Michael B. Coleman (D) Area  - City  212. ... “Cincinnati” redirects here. ... The TX Millionaires Chorus, April 2006 The Texas Millionaires are a mens a cappella chorus based in Fort Worth, Texas. ... Nickname: Motto: Where the West Begins Location of Fort Worth in Tarrant County, Texas Coordinates: , Country State Counties Tarrant and Denton Government  - Mayor Michael J. Moncrief Area  - City  298. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Great Northern Union is a mens chorus based in the Minneapolis/St. ... Voices in Harmony, under the direction of Dr. Greg Lyne, is a male a cappella chorus of the San Francisco Bay Area. ... The Rich-Tone Chorus is an all-female, barbershop chorus, located in northern Texas in the United States. ... Surrey Harmony is an award-winning womens barbershop chorus based in Coulsdon, Surrey, UK. The members are the reigning UK Champions of Sweet Adelines, an international organisation which promotes four–part a cappella harmony. ... Founded in 1946, The Georgetown Chimes are Georgetown Universitys oldest and only all-male a cappella singing group. ... Georgetown University is an elite private research university located in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., United States. ... The Detroit-Oakland Chapter, Gentlemen Songsters Chorus is a member of the Pioneer District of the Barbershop Harmony Society. ...

• Song Of Atlanta Show Chorus[39], has competed many times at the international level and is based in the Atlanta, Georgia metro area, under the enthusiastic direction of Becki Hine!

Typical barbershop songs

Barbershop Harmony Society's Barberpole Cat Songs "Polecats" — songs which all Barbershop Harmony Society members are encouraged to learn as a shared repertoire — all famous, traditional examples of the genre: The Barbershop Harmony Society, legally and historically named the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. ...

• "Down Our Way"
• "Down by the Old Mill Stream"
• "Honey/Li'l Lize Medley"
• "Let Me Call You Sweetheart"
• "My Wild Irish Rose"
• "Shine on Me"
• "The Story of the Rose" ("Heart of My Heart")
• "Sweet Adeline"
• "Sweet and Lovely"
• "Sweet, Sweet Roses of Morn"
• "Wait 'Til the Sun Shines, Nellie"
• "You Tell Me Your Dream (I'll Tell You Mine)"

There are also several other well-known songs in the genre. Some are considered standards, such as "From the First Hello" and "Goodbye, My Coney Island Baby", while others are well-known because notable quartets are associated with them. An example of the latter is "Come Fly with Me", which gained popularity through association with the 2005 international quartet champion, Realtime. Let Me Call You Sweetheart is a popular song. ... Chancellor Olcott & co-star, c. ... Barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied vocal music characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a predominantly homophonic texture. ... Sweet, Sweet Roses of Morn was the first official Barbershop Harmony Society arrangement of a barbershop quartet song, in 1941. ... Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie is a popular song. ...

Examples of other songs popular in the barbershop genre are:

• "Alexander's Ragtime Band"
• "Bright Was the Night"
• "From the First Hello to the Last Goodbye"
• "Goodbye, My Coney Island Baby"
• "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen"
• "Yes, Sir, That's My Baby"
• "Hello My Baby"
• "When My Baby Smiles at Me"
• "Come Fly with Me"
• "Shine On Harvest Moon"
• "Sweet Georgia Brown"
• "Darkness on the Delta"

"Lida Rose" is a song beloved to barbershoppers from Meredith Willson's musical comedy The Music Man. A barbershop quartet forms an integral part of the story, and was played by the Buffalo Bills onstage and in the screen adaptation. Barbershoppers love the show's flattering portrayal of the barbershop spirit: four bickering school-board members become inseparable singing comrades once the Music Man shows them how to ring one perfect chord. Purists complain about inauthenticities in Willson's own arrangement, which is often modified slightly for barbershop quartet performances. Alexanders Ragtime Band is the name of a song by Irving Berlin. ... Sweet Georgia Brown is the theme of the Harlem Globetrotters. ... Robert Meredith Willson (18 May 1902 – 15 June 1984) was an American composer and playwright, best known as the writer of The Music Man. ... This article is about the stage musical. ... The Buffalo Bills were a barbershop quartet formed in Buffalo, New York. ...

See also

• A cappella
• Barbershop arranging
• Doo-wop
• List of quartet champions by year
• List of chorus champions by year
• List of BABS quartet champions by year
• List of LABBS quartet champions by year

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References

1. ^ Definition of the Barbershop Style, from the Contest and Judging Handbook. Barbershop Harmony Society (2002-07-11). Retrieved on 2007-06-06.
2. ^ Averill, Gage (2003). Four Parts, No Waiting: A Social History of American Barbershop Harmony. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-511672-0. 
3. ^ http://www.singers.com/gospel/gospelgroups.html
4. ^ http://www.barbershop.org/web/groups/public/documents/pages/pub_cb_00167.hcsp
5. ^ http://www.singers.com/take6.html
6. ^ http://www.singers.com/barbershop/crackerjills.html
7. ^ http://www.singers.com/barbershop/ambiance.html
8. ^ http://www.singers.com/barbershop/mixedbarbershop.html
9. ^ AAMBS 9th National Convention: Quartet Schools Competition Results (PDF). AAMBS (2007-09-27). Retrieved on 2007-10-03.

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External links

• Barbershop Quartets on 78rpms: How Quartet Harmonizing Became Known as Barbershop
• Barbershop Harmony Society home page
• Sweet Adelines home page
• Sweet Adelines UK home page (Sweet Adelines UK - Region 31)
• Harmony Inc. home page
• LABBS home page (Ladies' Association of British Barbershop Singers)
• Realtime A Capella Quartet
• Metropolis Barbershop Quartet
• Max Q Quartet
• BABS website (British Association of Barbershop Singers)
• Harmony Hall Museum—The historical section of the SPEBSQSA website, with information on quartets, choruses, and competitions since the Society's inception.
• Barbershop in Germany website
• N.Z.A.B.S. Website (N.Z.A.B.S. = New Zealand Association of Barbershop Singers Inc.) — The official homepage of male barbershop in New Zealand
• Present at the Creation: Barbershop Quartets from NPR