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Originally Posted by Kirk Lorange
Again, hb, it all comes down to chords. A plain old major or minor chord uses three notes; barber shop quartets have 4 voices, so the harmonized melody is always four notes 'wide'. You'd have to look at each tune individually to really say what's going on (as in chord flavors, like 9ths, 6ths etc.), but at any given moment, any slice in time, there's a chord going on. You often hear moving lines, where one voice is answering another with a separate melody ... it's still all chords.
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Thanks for that explanation. Not being a singer, I know that one can PLAY a 7th chord in a song, but can one actually SING a 7th chord? This doesn't sound like something that can be done.
hb