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Music performed a cappella (/ ˌ ɑː k ə ˈ p ɛ l ə / AH kə-PEL-ə, UK also / ˌ æ k ə ˈ p ɛ l ə / AK ə-PEL-ə, Italian: [a kkapˈpɛlla]; [1] lit. ' in [the style of] the chapel '), less commonly spelled a capella in English, [2] is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.
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).
Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin (and occasionally Greek) of the Roman Catholic Church. Gregorian chant developed mainly in western and central Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries, with later additions and redactions.
A short piece of vocal music with lyrics is broadly termed a song, although in different styles of music, it may be called an aria or hymn. Vocal music often has a sequence of sustained pitches that rise and fall, creating a melody , but some vocal styles use less distinct pitches, such as chants or a rhythmic speech-like delivery, such as ...
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. Sean-nós singing usually involves very long melodic phrases with highly ornamented and melismatic melodic lines, differing greatly from ...
Alicia Keys performed the song in a pre-recorded segment that aired ahead of Super Bowl LV, the championship game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
"Lift Every Voice and Sing," often referred to as the Black national anthem, will be performed at the Super Bowl for the fourth time in a row, the latest legacy of the traditional song. Andra Day ...
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.