Question
Owen Cash and Rupert Hall founded this style’s “Harmony Society,” which runs local and international competitions. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this close harmony a capella style whose performers include The Four Freshmen and The Dapper Dans. Quartets of male singers often perform this style named for the social hubs in Black communities where it developed.
ANSWER: barbershop [accept barbershop quartets; accept Barbershop Harmony Society]
[10m] Barbershop music creates a characteristic “ringing” sound with a chord named for this interval. This just-intonated interval, which has a frequency ratio of 7 to 4, is about 31 cents flatter than a minor seventh.
ANSWER: harmonic seventh [or septimal minor seventh; or subminor seventh; prompt on barbershop seventh]
[10h] In barbershop music, the tenor sings in the range of a classical countertenor and harmonizes a third above this part. A barbershop quartet consists of tenor, this part, baritone and bass.
ANSWER: lead
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