They were pioneers of the vocal " surf music " craze that was popularized by The Beach Boys.

" With the help of record producers Herb Alpert and Lou Adler, Jan and Dean scored a No. 10 hit with " Baby Talk " ( 1959 ), their first song to contain a few of the soon to be famous elements that became associated with surf ( close vocal harmonies, selective use of major and minor chords, falsetto doo-wop singing ) and then scored a series of hits over the next couple of years.

Doo wop would be a major influence on vocal surf music, soul and early Merseybeat, including The Beatles.

It has two major forms: largely instrumental surf rock, with an electric guitar or saxophone playing the main melody, largely pioneered by Dick Dale and the Del-Tones, and vocal surf pop, including both surf ballads and dance music, often with strong harmonies that are most associated with The Beach Boys.

Although it began as a purely instrumental form, surf music achieved its greatest commercial success as vocal music.

Their early albums included both instrumental surf rock, including covers of music by Dick Dale, and vocal songs, drawing on rock and roll and doo wop and the close harmonies of vocal pop acts like the Four Freshmen.

Other vocal surf acts followed, including one-hit wonders like Bruce and Terry with " Summer Means Fun ", The Rivieras with " California Sun ", Ronny & the Daytonas with " G. T. O.

His guitar work was heavily influenced by surf music, jazz and rockabilly, and, alongside Jello Biafra's astute lyrics and unique vibrato-based vocal style, East Bay Ray's playing was one of the defining factors of the music of the Dead Kennedys, and by extension, of the " second wave " of American punk.

Although the term is attributed to The Cramps, their musical style is closer in formula to the surf rock sound of the early 1960s combined with the traditional " 12-bar blues " format than to 1950s rockabilly rhythms and vocal styles.

Their early albums included both instrumental surf rock ( among them covers of music by Dick Dale ) and vocal songs, drawing on rock and roll and doo wop and the close harmonies of vocal pop acts like the Four Freshmen.

Other vocal surf acts followed, including one-hit wonders like Ronny & the Daytonas with " G. T.

The British Invasion arguably spelled the end of instrumental surf music, vocal girl groups and ( for a time ) the teen idols, that had dominated the American charts in the late 1950s and early 60s.

Just months earlier, The Beach Boys released a vocal single called " Surfing Safari " Some months before The Challenger's " Surfbeat " release, surf music icon Dick Dale's first album " Surfers Choice " was released.

His music studies revolved around vocal composition, and thoroughbass.

Scarlatti's music forms an important link between the early Baroque Italian vocal styles of the 17th century, with their centers in Florence, Venice and Rome, and the classical school of the 18th century.

His instrumental music, though not without interest, is curiously antiquated as compared with his vocal works.

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.

Gregorian chant is an example of a cappella singing, as is the majority of secular vocal music from the Renaissance.

Thus, over time, the expression " a cappella " ( Italian for " in the manner of the chapel ") came to mean exclusively vocal music in contradistinction to the spreading use of the organ in cathedrals.

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

* In music recording, autocorrelation is used as a pitch detection algorithm prior to vocal processing, as a distortion effect or to eliminate undesired mistakes and inaccuracies.

Afrobeat is a combination of traditional Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, funk and chanted vocals, fused with percussion and vocal styles, popularised in Africa in the 1970s.

* Cerdd Dant ( string music ) or Canu Penillion ( verse singing ) is the art of vocal improvisation over a given melody in Welsh musical tradition.

Their emphasis on accessibility brought huge successes in opera, and in vocal music more widely: songs, oratorios, and choruses.

Opera or other vocal music was the feature of most musical events, with concertos and " symphonies " ( arising from the overture ) serving as instrumental interludes and introductions for operas and church services.

Over the course of the Classical period, " symphonies " and concertos developed and were presented independently of vocal music.

He then took this integrated style and began applying it to orchestral and vocal music.

By the end of the 1780s, changes in performance practice, the relative standing of instrumental and vocal music, technical demands on musicians, and stylistic unity had become established in the composers who imitated Mozart and Haydn.

The crucial differences with the previous wave can be seen in the downward shift in melodies, increasing durations of movements, the acceptance of Mozart and Haydn as paradigmatic, the greater use of keyboard resources, the shift from " vocal " writing to " pianistic " writing, the growing pull of the minor and of modal ambiguity, and the increasing importance of varying accompanying figures to bring " texture " forward as an element in music.

For vocal music, Caltech has Men's and Women's Glee Clubs.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

In some fields, quantitative research may begin with a research question ( e. g., " Does listening to vocal music during the learning of a word list have an effect on later memory for these words?

Based on this theory some statements, or hypotheses, will be proposed ( e. g., " Listening to vocal music has a negative effect on learning a word list .").

From these hypotheses predictions about specific events are derived ( e. g., " People who study a word list while listening to vocal music will remember fewer words on a later memory test than people who study a word list in silence .").

Apart from instrumental music that forms a part of traditional folk music, especially dance music traditions, much traditional folk music is vocal music, since the instrument that makes such music is usually handy.

The dark forms moved like mourners on some nocturnal pilgrimage, their dirge unsung for want of vocal chords.

One learns to become alert to changes in his vocal tone -- to his voice's suddenly shifting to a quality not like his usual one, a quality which sounds somehow artificial or, in some instances, parrot-like.

Today, a cappella also includes sample / loop " vocal only " productions by producers like Jimmy Spice Curry, Teddy Riley, Björk, Imogen Heap, Wyclef Jean and others.

While it seemed like a good move, her subsequent producers did not seem to match Gaynor's vocal approach and style as well.

Its origins were in African American vocal groups of the 1930s and 40s, like the Ink Spots and the Mills Brothers, who had enjoyed considerable commercial success with arrangements based on close harmonies.

They were followed by 1940s R & B vocal acts like The Orioles, The Ravens and The Clovers, who injected a strong element of traditional gospel and, increasingly, the energy of jump blues.

Geddy Lee's high-register vocal style has always been a signature of the band – and sometimes a focal point for criticism, especially during the early years of Rush's career when Lee's vocals were high-pitched, with a strong likeness to other singers like Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin.

Interestingly, the results show that the vocal fold mucosae were hypoplastic, and rudimentary, and like newborns, did not have any vocal ligament, Reinke ’ s space, or layered structure.

In normal vocal fold, the jelly-like “ Reinke ’ s space ” is very loose and abundant with interstitial proteins such as hyaluronic acid, fibronectin, proteoglycan like fibromodulin, decorin and versican.

Popular music stars in the early 1950s included Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Frankie Laine, Patti Page, Judy Garland, Johnnie Ray, Kay Starr, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Dean Martin, Georgia Gibbs, Eddie Fisher, Teresa Brewer, Dinah Shore, Kitty Kallen, Joni James, Peggy Lee, Julie London, Toni Arden, June Valli, Doris Day, Arthur Godfrey, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Guy Mitchell, Nat King Cole, and vocal groups like The Mills Brothers, The Ink Spots, The Four Lads, The Four Aces, The Chordettes, Fontane Sisters, The Hilltoppers and The Ames Brothers.

Nicks has said that her vocal style and performance antics evolved from female singers like Grace Slick and Janis Joplin.

" The old woman who teaches the children singing songs corrects sloppy intonation of contours, poorly meshed phase displacements, and vague rhythms exactly like a Western vocal coach.

I like it when it's a contrapuntal thing, where the guitar is doing one melody, the vocal is doing another melody, and the trumpet plays this third melody.

Aside from vocal communication, dingoes communicate like all domestic dogs via scent marking specific objects ( for example, Spinifex ) or places ( waters, trails, hunting grounds, and so forth ) using chemical signals from their urine, feces, and scent glands.

" The Italian terms " contralto " and " alto " are not synonymous, the latter technically denoting a specific vocal range in choral singing without regard to factors like tessitura, vocal timbre, vocal facility, and vocal weight.

Much like his appearance, Luigi's vocal portrayal has fluctuated over the years.

Songs like " California Girl " and " At First Sight " and the cover or J. Kidds " Shakin All Over " with Armstrong as lead vocal rhythm guitar and composer, Matt Rydell keyboards, Jim Bender bass and Van Harter drums.

Crosby and Nash also became a cottage industry themselves, their vocal prowess adding to the appeal of various songs, including hits like Taylor ’ s " Mexico " and Joni Mitchell ’ s " Free Man in Paris.

In truth, a few songs sounded like solo efforts, while Lodge's " Survival ", Hayward's appropriate closing " The Day We Meet Again " and Pinder's lone final contribution and lead vocal, " One Step Into The Light " ( curiously as the band is depicted as doing so on the cover photo – where Pinder is perhaps significantly barely glimpsed at all and almost out of focus ) were all high points on the album.

Starting out with borrowed acoustic guitars, they developed a style, which incorporated three-part vocal harmony with the style of contemporary folk-rock acts, much like Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.