Cracking-up a Chord
Cracking-up a Chord
This chapter discusses the relationship between African American song and barbershop harmonic practices using Sigmund Spaeth’s fundamental barbershop cadences and the New Orleans folklore transcriptions of R. Emmet Kennedy. This chapter also discusses the widespread practice of quartet singing among New Orleans musicians and confirms that Buddy Bolden and his band sang in a “barroom quartet.” Bolden is said to have picked off the notes that the quartet sang on his cornet.
Keywords: Barbershop harmony, Sigmund Spaeth, Quartet, R. Emmet Kennedy, African American
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