Further Antedating of "Barbershop" (Music)

[Dan Goncharoff]

I have no idea.

Do you know what they were actually doing at Hooley's?

DanG


On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>wrote:

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> Was Don Quixote referring to quartets singing in close harmony?
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> 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.
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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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> > et.
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