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Research suggests that singing and vocables may have been what early humans used to communicate before the invention of language. [4] The earliest piece of sheet music is thought to have originated from times as early as 2000 BC, [5] while the earliest that has survived in its entirety is from the first century AD: a piece from Greece called the Seikilos epitaph.
Choirs can sing with or without instrumental accompaniment. Singing without accompaniment is usually called a cappella singing (although the American Choral Directors Association [1] discourages this usage in favor of "unaccompanied", since a cappella denotes singing "as in the chapel" and much unaccompanied music today is secular).
Gaelic psalm singing, or Gaelic psalmody (Scottish Gaelic: Salmadaireachd), [1] is a tradition of exclusive psalmody in the Scottish Gaelic language found in Presbyterian churches in the Western Isles of Scotland.
Vocal music typically features sung words called lyrics, although there are notable examples of vocal music that are performed using non-linguistic syllables, sounds, or noises, sometimes as musical onomatopoeia, such as jazz scat singing.
Other researchers argue that today's barbershop music is an invented tradition related to several musical features popular around 1900, including quartet singing [15] and the use of the barbershop chord, [7] [14] but effectively created during the 1940s in the ranks of the Barbershop Harmony Society whilst creating a system of singing contests ...
Sean-nós singing (/ ˈ ʃ æ n. n oʊ s / SHAN-nohss, Irish: [ˈʃan̪ˠ n̪ˠoːsˠ]; Irish for 'old style') is unaccompanied, traditional Irish vocal music usually performed in the Irish language.
Five years ago, Beyoncé famously included “Lift Every Voice and Sing” in her now-landmark “Homecoming” set at Coachella and the song was first included ahead of the big game in 2021. But ...
Traditional Irish singing is the singing of traditional songs in the native styles such as sean nós. Though some people consider sean nós to particularly refer to singing in the Irish language, the term "traditional singing" is more universally understood to encompass singing in any language, as well as lilting .