Acapella Choral Group
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Acapella Choral Group
Acappella music is vocal music or singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. 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. In modern usage, acappella often refers to an all-vocal performance of any style, including barbershop, doo wop, and modern pop/rock. Acappella music originally was, and still often is, used in religious music, especially church music as well as anasheed and zemirot. Gregorian chant is an example of acappella singing, as is the majority of sacred vocal music from the Renaissance. The original music in Judaism and then in early Christianity was acappella and has continuously existed in both of these related religious communities as well as in Islam.
Acappella is traditional at Bar and Bat Mitzvah celebrations, and on the Sabbath sometimes. During the Three Weeks use of musical instruments is traditionally prohibited. Many Jews consider a portion of the 49-day period of the counting of the omer between Passover and Shavuot to be a time of semi-mourning and instrumental music is not allowed during that time.This has led to a tradition of acappella singing sometimes known as sefirah music.
Acappella music attained renewed prominence from the late 1980s onward, spurred by the success of Top 40 recordings by artists such as The Manhattan Transfer, but it was The Persuasions who saved the dying art and opened the door for such artists as Bobby McFerrin, Huey Lewis and the News, All 4 One, The Nylons and Boyz II Men.
In 2005, Bo Bice performed an acappella version of "In A Dream" by Badlands when he was one of three contestants remaining on season 4 of American Idol. The show's producers warned him that it was a risky move, but his performance got great reviews from the judges and Bice advanced to the finals.
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