barbershop quartet

noun. : a group of four male singers who sing in an old-fashioned style without instruments.

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.

A barbershop is one of the places where people go to get their hair cut. You might visit a barbershop at the beginning of every summer to get a short crew cut. While some hair cutters call themselves stylists and the places where they work salons, others are barbers who trim hair and shave necks in barbershops.

Roots of Barbershop Harmony He discovered overwhelming evidence that barbershop quartetting was pervasive in African-American culture in the late 1800s and early 1900s, including among many men who went on to become the pioneers of jazz.

Barbershop vocal harmony, as codified during the barbershop revival era (1930s–present), 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.

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Barbershop is an American form of a cappella singing that has African American roots and jazz flavorings. It includes turn-of-the-century Americana melodies, the Tin Pan Alley oeuvre, and jazz standards.

Good barbershop quartets and choirs can achieve this because the 4 voices rarely go far beyond an octave. Key to the barbershop sound is the melody is not the top note in the chords. The tenor sings a harmony above the melody (except for short segments where the melody goes to another part, usually the tenor or bass).

On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to barbershop, such as: beauty parlor, beauty salon, barber, hairdressing salon, hair salon, and styling salon.

the barber pole Barbers would place the barber pole outside their barbershop, to let customers know they were open for business. Many modern barber poles have a blue stripe, which some historical sources cite as a tribute to the colours of the America flag.

In a well-tuned barbershop quartet, overtones are enhanced, even sometimes to the point where the loudest note is not being sung by any of the four singers. Since each voice can produce its own overtones, it's quite possible to have a five, six, or even an eight-part chord being sung by four people.

Top 5 Barbershop Quartets

• 1) Bluegrass Student Union. Their International Quartet Championship in 1978 was just the beginning.
• 2) Gas House Gang. The Gas House Gang won International in 1993.
• 3) Ringmasters.
• 4) Vocal Spectrum.
• 5) Boston Common.