Barbershop music, the Glossary

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1. 100 relations: A cappella, Ad libitum, African Americans, After You've Gone (song), Alexander's Ragtime Band, American Harmony, American Quartet (ensemble), Australia, Barbershop arranging, Barbershop Harmony Society, Barbershop in Germany, Barbershop quartet, Baritenor, Baritone, Bass (voice type), Boater, British Association of Barbershop Singers, Canada, Canon (music), Choir, Chord (music), Circle of fifths, Close and open harmony, Coda (music), Combination tone, Come Fly with Me (1958 song), Consonance and dissonance, Countertenor, Down by the Old Mill Stream, Encyclopædia Britannica, Equal temperament, France, Germany, Goodbye, My Coney Island Baby, Goose bumps, Harold Arlen, Haydn Quartet (vocal ensemble), Heart of My Heart, Heldentenor, Hello Mary Lou, Hello! Ma Baby, Homorhythm, I've Been Working on the Railroad, In the Good Old Summer Time, Invented tradition, James Weldon Johnson, Jazz, Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, Johnny Burke (lyricist), Just intonation, ... Expand index (50 more) »

2. A cappella
3. Four-part harmony
4. Retro-style music

A cappella

Music performed a cappella, less commonly spelled a capella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.

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Ad libitum

In music and other performing arts, the phrase ad libitum (from Latin for 'at one's pleasure' or 'as you desire'), often shortened to "ad lib" (as an adjective or adverb) or "ad-lib" (as a verb or noun), refers to various forms of improvisation.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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After You've Gone (song)

"After You've Gone" is a 1918 popular song composed by Turner Layton with lyrics by Henry Creamer.

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Alexander's Ragtime Band

"Alexander's Ragtime Band" is a Tin Pan Alley song by American composer Irving Berlin released in 1911; it is often inaccurately cited as his first global hit.

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American Harmony

American Harmony is a 2009 documentary film directed and produced by Aengus James, produced by Colin Miller, and edited by Kate Amend.

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American Quartet (ensemble)

The American Quartet was a four-member vocal group that recorded for various companies in the United States between 1899 and 1925.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Barbershop arranging

Barbershop arranging is the art of creating arrangements of barbershop music.

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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. (SPEBSQSA), is the first of several organizations to promote and preserve barbershop music as an art form.

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Barbershop in Germany

Barbershop in Germany (abbreviated BinG or BinG!) is the association for barbershop music in Germany.

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Barbershop quartet

A barbershop quartet is a group of four singers who sing music in the barbershop style, characterized by four-part harmony without instrumental accompaniment, or a cappella. Barbershop music and barbershop quartet are a cappella and four-part harmony.

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Baritenor

Baritenor (also rendered in English-language sources as bari-tenor or baritenore) is a portmanteau (blend) of the words "baritone" and "tenor".

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Baritone

A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice-types.

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Bass (voice type)

A bass is a type of classical male singing voice and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types.

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Boater

A boater (also straw boater, basher, skimmer, The English Panama, cady, katie, canotier, somer, or sennit hat) is a semi-formal summer hat for men, which was popularised in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

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British Association of Barbershop Singers

The British Association of Barbershop Singers (BABS) is a British organisation of male barbershop singers.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Canon (music)

In music, a canon is a contrapuntal (counterpoint-based) compositional technique that employs a melody with one or more imitations of the melody played after a given duration (e.g., quarter rest, one measure, etc.). The initial melody is called the leader (or dux), while the imitative melody, which is played in a different voice, is called the follower (or comes).

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Choir

A choir (also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers.

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Chord (music)

In music, a chord is a group of two or more notes played simultaneously, typically consisting of a root note, a third, and a fifth.

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Circle of fifths

In music theory, the circle of fifths (sometimes also cycle of fifths) is a way of organizing pitches as a sequence of perfect fifths.

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Close and open harmony

A chord is in close harmony (also called close position or close structure) if its notes are arranged within a narrow range, usually with no more than an octave between the top and bottom notes.

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Coda (music)

In music, a coda (tail; plural code) is a passage that brings a piece (or a movement) to an end.

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Combination tone

A combination tone (also called resultant or subjective tone)"", Britannica.com.

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Come Fly with Me (1958 song)

"Come Fly with Me" is a 1958 popular song composed by Jimmy Van Heusen, with lyrics by Sammy Cahn.

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Consonance and dissonance

In music, consonance and dissonance are categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds.

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Countertenor

A countertenor (also contra tenor) is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of the female contralto or mezzo-soprano voice types, generally extending from around G3 to D5 or E5, although a sopranist (a specific kind of countertenor) may match the soprano's range of around C4 to C6.

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Down by the Old Mill Stream

"Down by the Old Mill Stream" is a song written by Tell Taylor.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Equal temperament

An equal temperament is a musical temperament or tuning system that approximates just intervals by dividing an octave (or other interval) into steps such that the ratio of the frequencies of any adjacent pair of notes is the same.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Goodbye, My Coney Island Baby

"Goodbye, My Coney Island Baby" is a popular barbershop song composed in 1924 by Les Applegate.

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Goose bumps

Goose bumps, goosebumps or goose-pimples (also called chill bumps) are the bumps on a person's skin at the base of body hairs which may involuntarily develop when a person is tickled, cold or experiencing strong emotions such as fear, euphoria or sexual arousal.

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Harold Arlen

Harold Arlen (born Hyman Arluck; February 15, 1905 – April 23, 1986) was an American composer of popular music, who composed over 500 songs, a number of which have become known worldwide.

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Haydn Quartet (vocal ensemble)

The Haydn Quartet, later known as the Hayden Quartet, was one of the most popular recording close harmony quartets in the early twentieth century.

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Heart of My Heart

"The Gang That Sang Heart of My Heart" is a popular song.

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Heldentenor

A heldentenor (English: heroic tenor), earlier called tenorbariton, is an operatic tenor voice, most often associated with Wagnerian repertoire.

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Hello Mary Lou

"Hello Mary Lou" is a song written by American singer Gene Pitney first recorded by Johnny Duncan in 1960 and by Ricky Nelson at United Western Recorders Studios on March 22, 1961.

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Hello! Ma Baby

"Hello! Ma Baby" is a Tin Pan Alley song written in 1899 by the songwriting team of Joseph E. Howard and Ida Emerson, known as "Howard and Emerson".

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Homorhythm

In music, homorhythm (also homometer) is a texture having a "similarity of rhythm in all parts"Griffiths, Paul (2005).

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I've Been Working on the Railroad

"I've Been Working on the Railroad" is an American folk song.

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In the Good Old Summer Time

"In the Good Old Summer Time" is an American Tin Pan Alley song first published in 1902 with music by George Evans and lyrics by Ren Shields.

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Invented tradition

Invented traditions are cultural practices that are presented or perceived as traditional, arising from the people starting in the distant past, but which are relatively recent and often even consciously invented by identifiable historical actors.

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James Weldon Johnson

James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871June 26, 1938) was an American writer and civil rights activist.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. Barbershop music and Jazz are African-American music and American styles of music.

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Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair

"Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" is a parlor song by Stephen Foster (1826–1864), published by Firth, Pond & Co. of New York in 1854.

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Johnny Burke (lyricist)

John Francis Burke (October 3, 1908 – February 25, 1964) was an American lyricist, successful and prolific between the 1920s and 1950s.

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Just intonation

In music, just intonation or pure intonation is the tuning of musical intervals as whole number ratios (such as 3:2 or 4:3) of frequencies.

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Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.

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Let Me Call You Sweetheart

"Let Me Call You Sweetheart" is a popular song, with music by Leo Friedman and lyrics by Beth Slater Whitson.

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List of Barbershop Harmony Society chorus champions

This page lists the Barbershop Harmony Society's international chorus champions by the year within which they won.

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List of Barbershop Harmony Society quartet champions

This article lists the Barbershop Harmony Society's international quartet champions by the year in which they won.

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List of musical band types

In music, a musical ensemble or band is a group of musicians that works together to perform music.

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist.

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Love Me and the World Is Mine (song)

Love Me and the World Is Mine is an American ballad published in 1906 with music by Ernest R. Ball, and lyrics by Dave Reed Jr.

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Marty Symes

Marty Symes (1904–1953) was an American lyricist.

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Minstrel show

The minstrel show, also called minstrelsy, was an American form of theater developed in the early 19th century. Barbershop music and minstrel show are African-American music.

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Moonlight Bay

"Moonlight Bay" is a popular song.

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Music of the United States

The United States' multi-ethnic population is reflected through a diverse array of styles of music.

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NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Ornament (music)

In music, ornaments or embellishments are musical flourishes—typically, added notes—that are not essential to carry the overall line of the melody (or harmony), but serve instead to decorate or "ornament" that line (or harmony), provide added interest and variety, and give the performer the opportunity to add expressiveness to a song or piece.

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Over the Rainbow

"Over the Rainbow", also known as "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", is a ballad by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Yip Harburg.

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Peerless Quartet

The Peerless Quartet was an American vocal group that recorded in the early years of the twentieth century.

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Ragtime

Ragtime, also spelled rag-time or rag time, is a musical style that had its peak from the 1890s to 1910s. Barbershop music and Ragtime are African-American music and American styles of music.

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Rapture

The Rapture is an eschatological position held by some Christians, particularly those of American evangelicalism, consisting of an end-time event when all dead Christian believers will be resurrected and, joined with Christians who are still alive, together will rise "in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air." The origin of the term extends from the First Epistle to the Thessalonians in the Bible, which uses the Greek word (ἁρπάζω), meaning "to snatch away" or "to seize".

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Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English diarist and naval administrator.

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Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.

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Scott Joplin

Scott Joplin (November 24, 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist. Barbershop music and Scott Joplin are African-American music.

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Shine On, Harvest Moon

"Shine On, Harvest Moon" is a popular early-1900s song credited to the married vaudeville team Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.

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Singing

Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Southern gospel

Southern gospel music is a genre of Christian music.

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Sweet Adeline (song)

"(You're the Flower of My Heart) Sweet Adeline" is a ballad best known as a barbershop standard.

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Sweet Adelines International

Sweet Adelines International is a worldwide organization of women singers, established in 1945, committed to advancing the musical art form of barbershop harmony through education and performances.

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Sweet Adelines International competition

The Sweet Adelines International Competitions are the annual global championships for women's barbershop harmony a cappella singing – in quartets and choruses – for members of Sweet Adelines International (SAI) and have been held annually between September and November since 1947.

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Sweet and Lovely

"Sweet and Lovely" is an American popular song of 1931, composed by Gus Arnheim, Charles N. Daniels, and Harry Tobias.

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Sweet Georgia Brown

"Sweet Georgia Brown" is a jazz standard composed in 1925 by Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard, with lyrics by Kenneth Casey.

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Synchronization

Synchronization is the coordination of events to operate a system in unison.

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Tag (barbershop music)

In barbershop music, a tag is a dramatic variation put in the last section of the song.

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Tenor

A tenor is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types.

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Tessitura

In music, tessitura is the most acceptable and comfortable vocal range for a given singer (or, less frequently, musical instrument).

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The New York Age

The New York Age was an American weekly newspaper established in 1887 in New York City.

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Traditional black gospel

Traditional black gospel is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding African American Christian life, as well as (in terms of the varying music styles) to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music. Barbershop music and Traditional black gospel are African-American music.

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Treemonisha

Treemonisha (1911) is an opera by American ragtime composer Scott Joplin. Barbershop music and Treemonisha are African-American music.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Vocal harmony

Vocal harmony is a style of vocal music in which a consonant note or notes are simultaneously sung as a main melody in a predominantly homophonic texture. Barbershop music and vocal harmony are American styles of music.

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Vocal music

Vocal music is a type of singing performed by one or more singers, either with instrumental accompaniment, or without instrumental accompaniment (a cappella), in which singing provides the main focus of the piece.

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Voice leading

Voice leading (or part writing) is the linear progression of individual melodic lines (voices or parts) and their interaction with one another to create harmonies, typically in accordance with the principles of common-practice harmony and counterpoint.

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Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie

"Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie" is a 1905 popular song with music written by Harry Von Tilzer and lyrics by Andrew B. Sterling.

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Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine

"Wedding Bells (Are Breaking Up That Old Gang Of Mine)" is a popular barbershop song composed by Sammy Fain with lyrics by Irving Kahal and Willie Raskin.

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What'll I Do

"What'll I Do" is a song written by Irving Berlin in 1923.

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Yes Sir, That's My Baby (song)

"Yes Sir, That's My Baby" is a popular U.S. song from 1925.

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Yip Harburg

Edgar Yipsel Harburg (born Isidore Hochberg; April 8, 1896 – March 5, 1981) was an American popular song lyricist and librettist who worked with many well-known composers.

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See also

A cappella

• A capella (Ylvis song)
• A cappella
• Barbershop music
• Barbershop quartet
• Bill Hare
• Cantu a tenore
• Collegiate a cappella
• Deke Sharon
• International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella
• Klapa
• Lining out
• Lists of a cappella groups
• London A Cappella Festival
• Metro Vocal Group
• Nasheeds
• Pitch Perfect (franchise)
• The Pitchforks of Duke University

Four-part harmony

• Barbershop music
• Barbershop quartet
• Cantu a tenore
• Four-part harmony
• Gospel quartet
• Klapa
• Quartet
• Sacred Harp

Retro-style music

• '80s remix
• American folk music revival
• Americana (music)
• Americana music
• Barbershop music
• British folk revival
• Chillwave
• Early music festivals
• Early music revival
• Emo revival
• Mod revival
• Musical historicism
• Nashville Boogie Vintage Weekender
• Nu-disco
• Old-time music
• Post-punk revival
• Revivalist artist
• Rock and roll revival
• Roots revival
• Roots rock
• Swing revival
• Synthwave
• Vaporwave
• Vinyl revival

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbershop_music

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