Jewish and Christian music were originally a cappella, and this tradition has existed continuously in both of these religions as well as in Islam.

The fact that Christendom has periodically grafted instrumental music into the worship service probably obscures, for contemporary adherents, the long, general and conscientious teaching of a cappella.

This has led to a tradition of a cappella singing sometimes known as sefirah music.

Like the USA, Australia has an a cappella association ( Vocal Australia ) who organizes events, education and resources for the vocal music community.

No show with a cappella orchestrations has ever run on Broadway.

Haden has also released a cappella versions of Journey's " Don't Stop Believin '", The Beach Boys ' " God Only Knows " and Michael Jackson's " Thriller ".

Jack White of The White Stripes has cited House's a cappella song, " Grinnin ' in Your Face ", as his favorite song.

Washington University has a large number of student-run musical groups on campus, including 12 official a cappella groups.

Brandeis has eleven a cappella groups, six undergraduate-run theater companies, one sketch comedy troupe, and four improv-comedy groups, as well as many other cultural and arts clubs.

* The a cappella group The Bobs ' song " Santa Ana Woman " from their 1988 album Songs for Tomorrow Morning has the line " The Santa Ana winds had come back / And the whole city of LA was acting like it had PMS.

A regionally popular a cappella singing group whose members hail from Fargo, Anoka and Crookston has taken its name, " Marcoux Corner ", from the former watering hole.

Also before Game One, the Yale Whiffenpoofs sang the national anthem, a blend of The Star-Spangled Banner with America the Beautiful that has been since repeated by other a cappella groups.

Colby also has a vibrant a cappella scene.

Ysaye Maria Barnwell ( born 1946 ,) has been a member of the African American a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock since 1979.

Nitanju Bolade Casel has been a member of the African American a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock since 1985.

Pomona has a long tradition of student-run a cappella singing groups: Men's Blue and White, Women's Blue and White, the Claremont Shades, Midnight Echo, and Mood Swing.

Olin College has a variety of clubs and organizations that support the arts, including the Power Chords ( a cappella ), the Franklin W. Olin Players ( FWOP ), Film Club, and the Olin conductorless orchestra.

The school has several a cappella groups.

In addition to contributing music to the soundtracks of the animated films Over the Hedge, and Hoodwinked !, Folds produced Amanda Palmer's first solo album and has been a judge on the NBC a cappella singing contest The Sing-Off since 2009.

Karlstad University has two a cappella groups, Sällskapet CMB and Söt Likör.

Wake Forest has a number of vibrant a cappella groups that produce annual records and have popular performances on and off campus.

These include Fungisai Zvakavapano-Mashavave who has risen to become the most dominant female gospel musician in the current era, Stanley Gwanzura ( Pastor Gee ), Kudzai Nyakudya and gospel a cappella outfits like Vabati VaJehovah and Shower Power

They sing original vocal music and a cappella covers of pop and rock songs ; over time, their sound has evolved from high-energy pop and world music toward a more R & B-style sound.

Cantrell has cited his interest in dark musical tones as dating back to this period: " In choir we performed a cappella Gregorian chants from the 14th and 15th centuries.

By 1563 Lassus had been appointed maestro di cappella, succeeding Ludwig Daser in the post.

Historical record does not indicate whether Monteverdi actually performed the Vespers in either city ; the work may have been written as an audition piece for posts at Venice ( Monteverdi became maestro di cappella at St Mark's Basilica in Venice in 1613 ) and Rome ( where the composer was not offered a post ).

They had each been in an a cappella group at Brown called High Jinks, but not all at the same time.

An African American a cappella ensemble, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, consisting of students at Fisk University in Nashville have been performing since 1871.

Verdelot is known to have been maestro di cappella at the Baptisterium San Giovanni in Florence from 1523 to 1525 ; and he seems also to have been employed at the Cathedral there, from 1523 until 1527.

Gallagher graduated from Tufts University, where he had been active in theater, appearing in such shows as Stephen Sondheim's Company and singing with the all-male a cappella group the Beelzebubs.

The song " Gotta Get Thru This " has been recorded in an a cappella version by the Danish vocal group SONO, released on the album " Playground " in 2011.

Often, sacred music in the concertato style in the early 17th century was descended from the motet: the texts that a hundred years earlier would have been set for a cappella voices singing in smooth polyphony, would now be set for voices and instruments in a concertato style.

By 1584 Anerio had been appointed maestro di cappella at the Collegio degli Inglesi ; he also seems to have been the choirmaster at another society of Rome's leading musicians called the vertuosa Compagnia de i Musici di Roma.

His first post may have been as maestro di cappella at Santa Maria dei Monti in 1588, and he is known to have acquired the post of maestro di cappella at San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome in 1591, after his brother left to join the papal choir.

*" The Bard's Song ( In the Forest )" has been covered by German a cappella metal band van Canto.

It has been described as " an innovative and superbly polished a cappella ensemble.

Live performances by Lekman have differed in style ; at times he has performed alone with only a guitar and a CD player, sometimes doing a cappella versions of his songs, while at other times he has been accompanied by a choir and string quartet.

" Let's Stay Together " has also been covered by Margie Joseph ( who had also recorded in Memphis contemporaneous to Green, but offered a Philly-inspired version produced by Arif Mardin ), Roberta Flack, Michael Bolton, Ms. Marilyn Marshall ( Club version ), Donny Osmond, Jimmy Smith, Seal, Michelle Williams, Ian Moss, Boyz II Men, Big Mountain, Isaac Hayes, Robin Thicke, Brian Kennedy, as well as by At Last on the first season of America's Got Talent, who performed it a cappella.

The band of six was founded by Brian Hibbard in 1982 from a group of actors who had been active with him in John McGrath's ' 7: 84 Theatre Group ', a fringe theatre organisation who had sung a cappella in their production of the 1981 play One Big Blow.

When Gioseffo Zarlino took over the post of maestro di cappella from Cipriano de Rore in 1565, Donato was demoted back to being a singer ; conflict between the two men seems to have been a feature of life at St. Mark's, culminating in a climactic fight in 1569, publicly and scandalously, during the Feast of St. Mark.

Agostino Agazzari was maestro di cappella at the Seminario Romano, and he may have been one of Landi's teachers as well.