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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.
Rudy's Barbershop is a chain of barbershops founded in Seattle, Washington by Alex Calderwood, David Petersen and Wade Weigel in 1993, with locations primarily on the United States West Coast. Calderwood and Weigel would later go on to also co-found the Ace Hotel group in 1999.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Cover of 1903 sheet music, with inset photo of singer Pearl Redding"(You're the Flower of My Heart,) Sweet Adeline" is a ballad best known as a barbershop standard.It was first published in 1903, with lyrics by Richard Husch Gerard to music by Harry Armstrong, from a tune he had written in 1896 at the age of 18.
Clay Hine (born 1963) is a barbershop musician and arranger.. He is a native Chicagoan, but has lived in the Atlanta Metro area since the late 1980s after he graduated from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) in 1986 with a degree in electrical engineering.
Originally founded as a men's chorus in 1985, they performed four-part harmony in the barbershop style. Since 2020, they accept members of any genders. Officially, they are the Hilltop, Minnesota chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society (BHS) and are active in competition. The chorus has won 11 medals (top 5) in BHS International Chorus ...