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Tim Waurick is a barbershop tenor singer and coach for various barbershop choruses and quartets. Waurick creates learning tracks – recordings in which one part is dominant and the others are sung softly in the background – for the Barbershop Harmony Society, Sweet Adelines International, and various other quartets and choruses around the world. [1]
The Barbershop Harmony Society, legally and historically named the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. (SPEBSQSA), is the first of several organizations to promote and preserve barbershop music as an art form.
Barbershop harmony is a style of 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: the lead sings the melody, with the tenor harmonizing above the melody, the bass singing the lowest harmonizing notes, and the baritone completing the chord.
David Lee Wright (born December 1, 1949) is a mathematics professor, barbershop arranger, and Associate Director of the Ambassadors of Harmony (AOH). [1] He is a noted a cappella historian and arranger, [2] [3] especially in the barbershop style where in 12 of 18 years from 1999 to 2016, his arrangements resulted in chorus gold medals at the Barbershop Harmony Society (BHS) International ...
The Dapper Dans barbershop quartet, at Disneyland's Main Street, USA WPA poster, 1936. 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.
A barbershop quartet is a group of four singers who sing music in the barbershop style, characterized by four-part harmony without instrumental accompaniment . The four voices are: the lead , the vocal part which typically carries the melody ; a bass , the part which provides the bass line to the melody; a tenor , the part which harmonizes ...
In 2017, Avriel Kaplan referenced "Sweet Adeline" in the track "Sweet Adeline", written for the Avriel and the Sequoias debut album, Sage and Stone. In 2017, Alt-J wrote and referenced "Sweet Adeline" in a different fashion with their track "Adeline" on the album, Relaxer. The band described the song as a love ballad from a shark's point of ...
A hair dryer in barbershop A barber shop in Essex County, Ontario, [ca. 1900], with the photographer visible in the mirror at the back. In the late 19th and early 20th century, barbershops became a common business in the United States where people would go to have their hair cut by a professional barber with good equipment.