didnt know Barbershop music was a category of music.
Oh yes, it's a vocal harmony codified during the barbershop revival era. It's mostly a cappella
oh ok, seems kind of a dead art tho.
Oh, yes, it is a dying breed. But when it was in full swing it was mostly played by a barbershop quartet, a group of four singers.
Oh so barbershop quartets that makes sense, thought it was more inline of something like elevator music but it means quartets
sung by the lead, bass, or tenor singers. The baritone can sing either above or below the lead singer.
Quartets can be male or female, but are generally not mixed male and female. A female barbershop quartet may be referred to as a Sweet Adelines quartet (taking the title from the barbershop classic "Sweet Adeline"), and the vocal parts have the same labels, since the roles perform similar functions in the quartet even though the vocal ranges are different. Most barbershop quartets are male.
Barbershop music
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 predominantly homophonic texture. Each of the four parts has its own role: generally, the lead sings the melody, the tenor harmonizes above the melody, the bass sings the lowest harmonizing notes, and the baritone completes the chord, usually below the lead. The melody is not