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Day 215 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
"What is close harmony?" was asked a glee club boy with fair Yale locks. He vouchsafed reply, "Close harmony is so called because the singers stand close to each other and watch each other closely." . . .
"Explaining why its music was not written in four parts, editors of the book of Columbia University Songs declared, "The musical contortionists will get in their fine work anyhow, and can always be relied on to contribute their improvisations regardless of the arrangement. The following quartet, octette or double octette affair, is a "mellow" from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas air and words as sung by Lois Magnusou."
Day 215 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
"What is close harmony?" was asked a glee club boy with fair Yale locks. He vouchsafed reply, "Close harmony is so called because the singers stand close to each other and watch each other closely." . . .
"Explaining why its music was not written in four parts, editors of the book of Columbia University Songs declared, "The musical contortionists will get in their fine work anyhow, and can always be relied on to contribute their improvisations regardless of the arrangement. The following quartet, octette or double octette affair, is a "mellow" from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas air and words as sung by Lois Magnusou."
