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  2. A cappella - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Vocal music - Wikipedia

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    Music which employs singing but does not feature it prominently is generally considered to be instrumental music (e.g. the wordless women's choir in the final movement of Holst's symphonic work The Planets) as is music without singing. Music without any non-vocal instrumental accompaniment is referred to as a cappella.

  4. Collegiate a cappella - Wikipedia

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    The RPI Glee Club of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, established in 1873, was one of the earliest known collegiate a cappella groups. [2] The longest continuously operating group is thought to be The Whiffenpoofs of Yale University, [3] which was formed in 1909 to create a musical group with a more "modern" sound than that of the Yale Glee Club, and named for the lyrics to Little Nemo, a ...

  5. Choir - Wikipedia

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    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).

  6. Barbershop music - Wikipedia

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    Thousands of men responded. Later the "Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America" was established, known by the abbreviation S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. [23] at a time when many institutions in the US used multiple initials to denote their function. The group adopted the alternate name "Barbershop Harmony ...

  7. Sheila Kay Adams - Wikipedia

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    A seventh-generation ballad singer, storyteller, and claw-hammer banjo player, Sheila Kay Adams was born and raised in the Sodom Laurel community of Madison County, North Carolina, an area renowned for its unbroken tradition of unaccompanied singing of traditional southern Appalachian ballads that dates back to the early Scots/Irish and English Settlers in the mid-17th century.

  8. A Brief History of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' Ahead of Super ...

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    More than a century after “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was adopted as the “Black national anthem,” Andra Day will perform it to christen Super Bowl LVIII. “Peace and Blessings ...

  9. Languages of the United States - Wikipedia

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    American Sign Language is the most common sign language in the United States, although there are unrelated sign languages that have also been developed in the States and territories—mostly in the Pacific. No concrete numbers exist for signers but something upwards of 250,000 is common.

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