#barbershop music

[serenaew]

Gauging interest: "Tag-A-Week"

aka Barbershop-related creation prompts

Hi!

Some of you might know that the Barbershop fever has caught up with me during the last few months. (Barbershop is a music style where popular songs are arranged in a very distinct a cappella four-voice format.)

Since my brain won't shut up about it to me, here's the next fannish event proposal from me:

"Tag-A-Week"

Basically, I (or more fest mods if anyone else wants to join me ;-) ) will give you a more-or-less random Barbershop tag (last few phrases of a song) every week and that tag and/or song will be the creating prompt for the week! Most likely, I'll type in a random number into the Goodtags app to see which tag that gives me - though tag suggestions are always very welcome!

I will try to provide sheet music and/or audio samples wherever possible.

All fandoms, ships, ratings and formats are welcome --- some random ideas being:

singing telegram-style filks or fanart

songfics or podfics featuring the tag, arrangement or song

creating your own version of a tag or song in fannish context

simply sing that tag in a quartet with yourself and/or your best (fannish) Barbershop buddies

decorating sheet music, ...

Your imagination is the only limit!

Let me know if you'd be interested!

Cheers,

Serena

P.S.: For more infromation about Barbershop, here's the link to the Barbershop Harmony Society's Website:

[alliterative-endlessknot]

It’s #BarbershopMusicAppreciationDay! Check out this video to learn about its connection to Rock and Roll

[help-help-i-need-an-adult]

I directed a chorus today. Like, at a performance the chorus was getting paid to perform at.

I don’t usually direct a chorus.

I did direct a (very small) school chorus when I was in high school and college. That was roughly a decade ago.

I haven’t had ANY formal training in music ensemble conducting, but I did learn some things by being in choirs (like, really good ones) as a kid. I also learned a little by being the “lab rat” for a choir director’s workshop that my childhood director ran and taught every year.

But again, nothing where I was the intended student.

Despite all that, today went really well. And I was really nervous about it.

Yay small wins!

[texaschainsawmascara]

Eve, 2000s

The term wife-beater reportedly became synonymous for an undershirt after a 1947 criminal case where a Detroit man was arrested for beating his wife to death, and newspapers printed a photo of the "wife beater" wearing a stained undershirt.

[timmurleyart]

Death certificate. 🧊💀🏷️ (mixed media on paper)⚰️

[skys-archive]

Unfortunately today has become a frustrated and upset about being disabled day

Perhaps working on my stuff for callbacks can distract

[dejablonde]

3-5 men singing in tight harmony fucks so severely

shanties, barbershop, gospel, the beatles

3-5 men has got to be one of the genres ever

[bruce-morrow]

Jheri Curls, St. Louis, MO, 1980s

[thankyouforthefunny]

American folk music and traditions my beloved <3

Makes me emotional how many types of music and dancing came from the most persecuted and continually oppressed minority groups, only to spread across the world (for better or worse) because of how well they’re able to express the human experience.

[reality-detective]

(Unmute) They sound good to me!

[pseuddamntired]

It’s that time of year again. Barbershop parodies at barbershop conference performances.

[gameraboy2]

Barbershop Ballads - The World Famous Sportsmen Quartet

[alliterative-endlessknot]

It’s #BarbershopMusicAppreciationDay! Check out this video to learn about its connection to Rock and Roll

[vaporwave]