12 Ballads & Fugues

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[About Barbershop] [Original Quartets] [Arrangements] [Misc.]

The "Barbershop Quartet" is an original American l style of male vocal singing. The typical type of song in this barbershop style ranges from tender love ballads to funny songs about nothing.

One of the most unique musical effects in the barbershop style is that the melody is usually sang by the person singing "lead". Interestingly, the "lead" voice is second from the top voice with a light (falsetto-based) tenor sing above and the baritone and bass vocalists respectively singing below the lead.

I have had the fortune to sing barbershop since my high school days in the late 1980s and early 1990s. While I haven't always sang barbershop faithfully along the years, I have found the Barbershop Quartet an excellent medium for writing expressive songs. Particularly, expressive songs about love.

To learn more about Barbershop, see my favorite links and/or check out my original Barbershop Quartet songs and arrangements below.

Original Quartets

12 Ballads and Fugue for Barbershop Quartet

	Ballad No. 1 in C "Donna, I Love You So" Real Audio (12 min, 2 sec) (995 KB)
	Fugue No. 1 in E "I Know I Love Her" Real Audio (3 min, 41 sec.) (880 KB)

	Ballad No. 2 in F "Look My Way Tonight" Real Audio (12 min, 2 sec)
	Fugue No. 2 in A "First Love"

	Ballad No. 3 in Bb "I Have Dreamed"
	Fugue No. 3 in D "-------"

	Ballad No. 4 in Eb "If a Song Could Say the Words"
	Fugue No. 4 in G - "------"

	Ballad No. 5 in Ab "No Money, No Honey"
	Fugue No. 5 in C - "No Money, No Honey"

	Ballad No. 6 in Db "Do Not Cry When I Leave"
	Fugue No. 6 in F - "Don't Cry"

	Ballad No. 7 in Gb "Every Day I Love You More"
	Fugue No. 7 in Bb - "March 12th"

	Ballad No. 8 in B "I Know You Love Me"
	Fugue No. 8 in Eb - "Hope and Pray"

	Ballad No. 9 in E "-------"
	Fugue No. 9 in Ab - "-------"

	Ballad No. 10 in A "I'd Give You the World"
	Fugue No. 10 in Db - "-------"

	Ballad No. 11 in D "I'll Never Cry the Same"
	Fugue No. 11 in Gb - "-------"

	Ballad No. 12 in G "When Summer Comes"
	Fugue No. 12 in B - "-------"

Arrangements

Miscellaneous

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