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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 ...
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.
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.
This article lists the Barbershop Harmony Society's international quartet champions by the year in which they won. Quartets can win only once, though up to two members may appear together in another quartet and compete again. In this manner individual singers may win multiple gold medals.
The quartet continued together after leaving Disney, winning a bronze medal from the British Association of Barbershop Singers and have performed at Disneyland Paris for the 25th and 30th anniversaries and in 2020 returned to Main Street USA in costume for a VVIP special event. The Main Street Quartet continue to perform in the UK and Europe.
Quorum easily won the top prize July 9 at the Barbershop Harmony Society’s annual International Quartet Contest in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Main Street is a barbershop quartet that started singing as a group on March 20, 2011. [1]The quartet has won several awards, culminating in their 2017 win of the Barbershop Harmony Society's International Quartet Championship in Las Vegas, Nevada. [2]
Donny and Marie eventually became a spinoff act as a duo, and Jimmy also went solo, even as the Osmond Brothers resumed working under their original name and quartet format from the 1980s forward ...