QUESTIONS:
1- Name a European form of four-part men's choral singing sharing many characteristics with barbershop harmony.
2- Describe a noteworthy shared characteristic.
3- Describe another shared characteristic.
4- What do these European singers call an audible overtone?
5- Is this type of singing performed by quartets?
ANSWERS:
1- "A Tenore" singing from the Italian island of Sardinia.
2- Chords lock in and ring. Pure - not tempered - tuning rules the roost, in other words, just as in barbershop.
3- The melody is sung by the second highest voice part, not by the tenor.
4- La Quintina. Literally, the little fifth.
5- My source did not indicate. If any reader of this quiz knows the answer, please enlighten me.
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