Non-English barbershop music?

[psychonaut]

Are there any barbershop songs sung in a language other than English? I’d love to see videos (or hear audio) of some, though my Google and YouTube searches for French, German, Spanish, and Russian barbershop songs haven’t proved fruitful.

[hajario]

Chinese

Chinese "Barbershop" Quartet 男聲四重唱(無伴奏)

[psychonaut]

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Chinese

[/QUOTE] I'm going to have to agree with the comments on that video—this may be an a capella group, but it's not barbershop that they're singing.

[BigT]

@psychonaut

I’m going to have to agree with the comments on that video—this may be an a capella group, but it’s not barbershop that they’re singing.

I agree, except it’s also not a capella. The instrumentation happens separately, but it’s still there. An a capella group can’t have an instrumental solo in it.

I still am fascinated by it, as the harmony is entirely in the Western tradition. I would not be surprised to hear the same music from an piece in the west in the 1800s.