What does "TAG for Three-part voices" mean?
Reading some three-part a cappella music, I see "TAG for Three-part voices" above the staff. Any idea what that might mean?
19 is the measure number. There are 27 measures total in the song, so this is the start of the last 8 measures. There's an alternate ending for two voices that has written above the staff: "TAG for Two-part voices".
UPDATE: Besides the posted answers below, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(barbershop_music).
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"Tag" is a synonym for "Coda", or the final section of a song.
Tags are idiomatic to barbershop music (which is typically four a cappella voices), and refer to the ending chords of a song, usually coincident with the last line of lyrics.
Sometimes singers will get together for the sole purpose of singing tags, since they are easier to learn than an entire piece of music and usually consist of harmonic cadences that are very fun to sing.
And you can find a whole bunch of them here, including a public domain book of 125 classic tags.
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