Further Antedating of "Barbershop" (Music)

[Shapiro, Fred]

Was Don Quixote referring to quartets singing in close harmony?

Fred Shapiro



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Subject: Re: Further Antedating of "Barbershop" (Music)

What about the reference to "barbers-shops" in Don Quixote: "...books,
ballads, barbers-shops, and stage-plays"? That was translated into English
about 150 years earlier.

DanG


On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>wrote:

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> barber-shop (OED, 2.b., 1910)
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> 1887 _Daily Inter Ocean_ (Chicago) 15 May 16 (America's Historical
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> rs)  To-Night.  Hooley's Theater.  All This Week. ... The Barber Shop
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