A cappella

A cappella [a kapˈpɛlla] (Italian for "in the manner of the chapel") music is specifically group or solo singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It contrasts with cantata, which is accompanied singing. The term "a cappella" was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato style. In the 19th century a renewed interest in Renaissance polyphony coupled with an ignorance of the fact that vocal parts were often doubled by instrumentalists led to the term coming to mean unaccompanied vocal music. The term is also used, albeit rarely, as a synonym for alla breve.

Religious origins

A cappella music was originally used in religious music, especially church music as well as anasheed and zemirot. Gregorian chant is an example of a cappella singing, as is the majority of secular vocal music from the Renaissance. The madrigal, up until its development in the early Baroque into an instrumentally-accompanied form, is also usually in a cappella form. Jewish and Christian music were originally a cappella, and this practice has continued in both of these religions as well as in Islam.

A cappella (disambiguation)

A cappella is an adjective that means "unaccompanied singing."

A cappella [a kapˈpɛlla] may also refer to:

Music

  • A Capella, composition for choir by Morton Gould
  • Artists

  • Acappella (group), an all-male contemporary Christian vocal group
  • Albums

  • A Cappella (Gaither Vocal Band album), 2003
  • A Cappella (Todd Rundgren album), 1985
  • Acapella (album), 1994, by Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge
  • Songs

  • "A Capella (Something's Missing)" by Brandy Norwood from Human (Brandy Norwood album) 2008
  • "Acapella" (Karmin song), 2013
  • "Acapella" (Kelis song), 2010
  • A capella (Ylvis song), Ylvis song, 2016
  • "One Sweet Day (A Cappella)", 1995, Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men song
  • "A Capella", song by Israel Vibration U-Roy from Serious Matter 2000
  • Other uses

  • Acapella (trimaran), a boat
  • See also

  • Capella (disambiguation)
  • Acapela business organization
  • A Capela, Galicia
  • A Cappella (Gaither Vocal Band album)

    A Cappella is an album from Contemporary Christian, Southern Gospel group Gaither Vocal Band. The album was released on September 30, 2003.

    Track listing

  • "Low Down the Chariot" (Bill Gaither, Russ Taff) – 2:52
  • "Leave It There" / "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" (C. C. Converse, Joseph Scriven, Charles Albert Tindley) – 4:27
  • "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" (Isaac Watts) – 3:24
  • "Delivered from the Hands of Pharaoh" (O. A. Parris, Eugene Wright) – 2:27
  • "He Will Carry You" (Scott Wesley Brown) – 4:45
  • "Jesus! What a Friend for Sinners" (John Wilbur Chapman, Rowland Prichard) – 4:17
  • "Sing a Song"/"I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)" (Bill Backer, Roger Cook, Billy Davis, Roger Greenaway, Joe Raposo) – 3:41
  • "Center of My Joy" (Bill Gaither, Gloria Gaither, Richard Smallwood) – 4:24
  • "Heaven's Joy Awaits" (V. B. Ellis) – 2:38
  • "God Bless America" (Irving Berlin) – 3:28
  • "I Then Shall Live" (Gloria Gaither, Jean Sibelius) – 5:13
  • "Gentle Shepherd" (Gloria Gaither, Bill Gaither) – 4:11
  • Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    A Cappella

    by: Isaacs

    I knew a song that played in me
    It seems I've lost the melody
    So, please, Lord
    Give it back to me
    Yeah, please Lord
    Give it back to me
    Years in the desert with no drink
    Strike a rock, make it bleed
    And, please, Lord
    Give it back to me
    Yeah, please Lord
    Give it back to me
    If you blow on the embers
    The light will shine on my face
    The streams will run in the desert
    And sing amazing grace
    You're everywhere in everytime
    And yet you're so damn hard to find
    So, please, Lord
    I don't wanna aside
    No, please, Lord
    I don't wanna aside
    I need your breath on the embers
    I need the light on my face
    I need the streams in the desert
    That sing amazing grace, that sing amazing grace




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