study-music

Barbershop style

Main features of this language:

• four voices
• melody is in the second-highest voice
• mostly in a major mode
• barbershop seventh chord

Materials

• Examples on Youtube
• Chris Lewis. Barbershop Arranging: A Modern Guide
• Simon Rylander. The 11 Chords of Barbershop
• David Wright. Classic Tags for Men’s Voices and audio
• Barbershop Arrangers Manual
• The standards are called Polecat Songs, there are two volumes
• There are two plugins for Musescore 3.x on barbershop
• 8-bit Music Theory. When Bioshock Infinite Covered The Beach Boys
• Scores in Verovio Humdrum Viewer
• Who sings which part
• Two-minute tutorial on Cuphead