A cappella : Unaccompanied
A cappella music is vocal music without instrumental accompaniment. A cappella is Italian for like the chapel (music). A cappella music was and is often used in church music[?]. Gregorian chant is an example of a cappella singing.A choir singing without instrumental accompaniment is called an a cappella choir. Non-accompanied vocal music is considered a cappella due to restrictions on th use of instruments in medieval churches.
Many standard choral works are a cappella in that no accompaniment is written in except perhaps for rehearsal purposes. But in the modern parlance, it applies to vocal ensembles who disdain instrumental accompaniment in all cases. Barbershop, doo wop, and contemporary a cappella[?] are some of the major movements within modern a cappella musicmaking.
Famous a cappella ensembles:
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his fearlessness inspired their confidence; his kindness to the wounded,
priests who shared with the peasants the perils of war, made him beloved.
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like Lescure and Bonchamp, and noble fighters like d'Antichamp and the
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urge his kinsman, the Duc de Bercy, to join the Royalists.
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officers of the duchy. With the memory of past feuds and hatreds in his
courteously disdainful, his manner preoccupied.
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America? But yes, he remembered, it began with an expedition to take the
peace, fit only for boys or buccaneers. Had monsieur le comte then spent
his eyes cynically on the symbol of the Royalist cause on Detricand's
visit. Perhaps, he added drily, it was to inquire after his own health,
Vaufontaine, was never better.
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behind was pinched, and the eyes looked out like brown beads alive with
delicate savagery of irony, though, too, there could be heard in the tone
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