She chose an a cappella arrangement that was close to Edwin Othello Excell's, accompanied by a chorus of amateur singers who were friends of hers.

A cappella music originally was, and still often is, used in religious music, especially church music as well as anasheed and zemirot.

The early a cappella polyphonies may have had an accompanying instrument, although this instrument would merely double the singers ' parts and was not independent.

A strong and prominent a cappella tradition was begun in the midwest part of the United States in 1911 by F. Melius Christiansen, a music faculty member at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.

The success of the ensemble was emulated by other regional conductors, and a rich tradition of a cappella choral music was born in the region at colleges like Concordia College ( Moorhead, Minnesota ), Augustana College ( Rock Island, Illinois ), Wartburg College ( Waverly, Iowa ), Luther College ( Decorah, Iowa ), Gustavus Adolphus College ( St. Peter, Minnesota ), Augustana College ( Sioux Falls, South Dakota ), and Augsburg College ( Minneapolis, Minnesota ).

The song is not actually performed a cappella, but rather, explains that before her son was born, her life was without music.

In 2010, the Australian a cappella Quartet The Idea of North was nominated for an ARIA for their seventh studio album, " Feels Like Spring ", bringing a cappella music back into pop culture.

The third a cappella musical to appear Off-Broadway, In Transit, premiered 5 October 2010 and was produced by Primary Stages with book, music, and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan, and Sara Wordsworth.

The first South Asian a cappella group was Penn Masala, founded in 1996 at the University of Pennsylvania.

The first co-ed south Asian a cappella was Anokha, from the University of Maryland, formed in 2001.

More recently, " Twilight Zone " by 2 Unlimited was sung a cappella to the instrumentation on the comedy television series Tompkins Square.

From 1544 to 1551, Palestrina was organist of the principal church ( St. Agapito ) of his native city, and in 1551 he became maestro di cappella at the Cappella Giulia, the papal choir at St Peter's.

In 1705, he was married ; Antonino Biffi, the maestro di cappella of San Marco was a witness, and evidently was a friend of Albinoni's.

These ' singing clubs ' were often for women or men separately, and the music was typically in four-part ( hence the name " part-song ") and either a cappella or with simple instrumentation.

* Domenico Scarlatti ( 1685-1757 ) was maestro di cappella at St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome from 1715 to 1719.

It was the first composition of a new musical project that became the celebrated album Graceland, an eclectic mixture of musical styles including pop, a cappella, isicathamiya, rock, and mbaqanga.

At Harvard, he was a member of the Fly Club, sang with the a cappella group the Harvard Krokodiloes, was a cartoonist for the Harvard Lampoon ( eventually becoming its president ), and acted in the Hasty Pudding Theatricals shows.

In the fall of 2007, the third generation of a cappella groups was formed, The TechTonics, a coed group of students.

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

" Stalin Wasn't Stallin ' ( A Modern Spiritual )" was an American patriotic song written in 1943 by Willie Johnson and originally recorded by the a cappella gospel group Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet ( of which Johnson was a member ) in 1943.

As part of its typical season, the Chorus will present two " classical " concert series ( one in November and one in May ), a series of Christmas Pops concerts in December, seven performances of " A Celebration of Twelfth Night " in January ( a musical and theatrical event based on an originally written stage play set in medieval times ), a guest choral ensemble in February, an ' a cappella ' concert series in March, and Summer Pops, a large outdoor performance held in Westerly's Wilcox Park for audiences of 25, 000 each June.

It was originally performed by MacColl and Seeger as an a cappella duet.

It included the Bivins / Smith penned " We Were Made As One ," originally recorded in 1966 but covered in an a cappella, doo wop style to emphasize the group's doo wop roots.

It was originally sung by students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is now often performed by the MIT a cappella group The Chorallaries.

The International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella, originally the National Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (" NCCA ", a play on NCAA ), is an international competition that attracts hundreds of college a cappella groups each year.

Also featured is an a cappella version of the Hindi classic " Aap Jaisa Koi ", sung by Penn Masala and originally from the movie Qurbani.

In April of 2012, a companion disc was released, titled More Uncovered, which features more new material as well as an a cappella recording of " Eyes of Mercy ," a song originally released on the band's self-titled Epic Records debut.

Daoqing comes from the Tang Dynasty and was originally a cappella Taoist music.

Dartmouth College's oldest a cappella singing group, the Aires were originally formed as the Injunaires in 1946 as an offshoot of the college Glee Club ; the Dartmouth Aires broke with the Glee Club in the late 1970s.

A cappella ( Italian for " in the manner of the church " or " in the manner of the chapel ", also see gospel music and choir ) music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way.

Domenico Mazzocchi's 1638 book splits madrigals into continuo and ensemble works specifically intended to be performed a cappella ; Mazzocchi's instructions are precise, and he even includes, for the first time in any printed music collection, symbols for crescendo and decrescendo.

Most agricultural work songs were rhythmic a cappella songs intended to increase productivity while reducing feelings of boredom.

While Pisano wrote sacred music in a sober, homophonic style, probably intended to be used during his tenure as maestro di cappella at Ss.

He held a series of positions as organist and maestro di cappella ( choirmaster ) between 1607 and 1626, when he succeeded Vincenzo Ugolini as maestro of the Cappella Giulia's choir in St. Peter's Basilica.

An American record label, two Folger's coffee commercials that ran between 1998 and 2001, respectively, and another PBS special of their December 9, 2000 concert brought Rockapella to be known as the front-runners of modern day a cappella.

In force of personality, and with his central position as maestro di cappella at St. Mark's, he became the most influential musician in Europe between the death of Josquin and the time of Palestrina.

He was maestro di cappella ( director of music ) at the Salò cathedral between 1581 and 1584.

Although the extreme difference between his a cappella songs and his new tracks using electronic samples received mixed critics, Prigent considered that he remained faithful to the arrhythmic, unmeasured aspect of Breton music.

He went to Poland in between late 1595 and early 1596, staying at least through October 1596, accepting a position as maestro di cappella at the court of Sigismund III Vasa in Warsaw ; his predecessor, Annibale Stabile, had just died after only being there two months.

His earlier music is clearly in a Renaissance style, strictly a cappella with balanced polyphony between the voices, but after 1602 he wrote increasingly in an early Baroque style, with frequent concertato passages, and always with a basso continuo.

An additional point of contention between the two groups was whether or not Venetians — or at least Italians — should be given the top job of maestro di cappella at St. Mark's.

In 1595 he was employed as an organist at S Marcello, and likely became maestro di cappella at the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, after Francesco Soriano, between 1600 or 1601 and 1603.

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.

The label is best known for releasing rare and hard-to-find rock, electronic, funk, soul, hip hop, jazz, reggae, latin, and a cappella music made between the mid-1960s and late 1980s on vinyl records and CDs with copies of original album sleeves and liner notes.