"We dissect Take Six," said Mr. McCary, "to see how their vocal parts go, how they switch up, how they find six-part harmony in a song where it's hard to find six-part harmony."

I would put on a tape of Tudor madrigals - a new interest - and lie back in the contoured leather seats, letting myself melt into the crevices of Morley's sinuous six-part harmony and observing the surrounding misery with mounting satisfaction.

Some pretty fancy chords can be built with six-part harmony, and the vocal group Take 6 is willing to try them all, meshing its members voices in songs about love and faith.

The group's tonal focus is William Zukof's beautiful countertenor, which acts as a clear ethereal center around which the other voices turn and mesh, often in extremely close and ferociously meticulous six-part harmony.

Mosrene made a sound like a choir hiccuping in six-part harmony.

The strings were also called upon to imitate percussion instruments and the two bandoneons had to play up to six-part harmonies.

Nor was the singing simple, for the islanders added embellishments to choruses and songs, six-part harmonies and intricate descants.

His setting of 'Father Death Blues' is very beautiful, I think, using my own melody but in six-part harmony.

Têtes Noires was the first all-female rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, best known for their "casually mocking" feminist lyrics and for three- and sometimes up to six-part vocal harmonies.

Ishmael, Adrian and their happy band of cooks and carriers became firm friends and the memory of their haunting six-part harmonies as we reached the top of yet another gruelling ascent remains a potent pick-me-up.