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.

Five of the album's tracks were Neil's solo compositions and two were by Hester, the exuberant " Italian Plastic ", which became a crowd favourite at concerts and the hidden track " I'm Still Here ".

Other notational traditions do exist ; Italian solo music is typically written at the sounding pitch, and the " old " German method sounded an octave below where notation except in the treble clef, where the music was written at pitch.

Italian composer Sylvano Bussotti, whose composing career spans from the 1930s to the first decade of the 21st century, wrote a solo work for bass in 1983 entitled Naked Angel Face per contrabbasso.

Bassists noted for their virtuoso solo skills include Canadian player Gary Karr ( b. 1941 ), Finnish composer Teppo Hauta-Aho ( b. 1941 ), Italian composer Fernando Grillo, and US player-composer Edgar Meyer.

The word opera means " work " in Italian ( it is the plural of Latin opus meaning " work " or " labour ") suggesting that it combines the arts of solo and choral singing, declamation, acting and dancing in a staged spectacle.

He is the first Italian known to employ the oboe as a solo instrument in concerti ( c. 1715, in his masterful 12 concerti a cinque, op.

From the beginning of the 17th century until late in the 18th, the cantata for one or two solo voices with accompaniment of basso continuo ( and perhaps a few solo instruments ) was a principal form of Italian vocal chamber music.

* Georg Friedrich Handel's 1707 solo cantata in Italian, Ero e Leandro ( HWV 150 ), is based on the tale.

As a composer, Marcello was best known in his lifetime and is now still best remembered for his Estro poetico-armonico ( Venice, 1724 – 1727 ), a musical setting for voices, figured bass ( a continuo notation ), and occasional solo instruments, of the first fifty Psalms, as paraphrased in Italian by his friend G. Giustiniani.

Probably based on Italian monody and French air de cour, they were solo songs, occasionally with more ( usually three ) parts, accompanied on a lute .( p.

Other notable covers of this tragic, but widely beloved, folk anthem include the Italian guitar-vocal solo of Adriana Mezzadr and La Oreja de Van Gogh at the 2005 Viña del Mar International Song Festival.

Mat Anthony has since been involved in drum & bass project Baron Greenback and a solo venture under the pseudonym Mat Hudson, as well as playing for Italian singer songwriter Elena.

It was also popular at this time to adapt Italian concertos for other instruments ( such as violin and orchestra ) for solo harpsichord ( or organ ), something that Bach did with many of Vivaldi's concertos.

In 2009, the Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero wrote a composition for piano solo entitled Op.

It contains more than forty fantasias, six pavans, twelve villancicos, as well as sonetos ( settings of Italian sonnets ), and other pieces ; some of the pieces are for solo vihuela, and others for voice accompanied by vihuela.

Although the lyrics do not reference the film explicitly, singer and lyricist Mike Patton is known to be a fan of Italian horror films and even titled a song on his debut solo album, Adult Themes for Voice, after another Lucio Fulci film.

In December Renato Russo released his second solo album, Equilibrio Distante, sung in Italian.

In 1618 she published a collection of thirty-six solo songs and soprano / bass duets ( Il primo libro delle musiche ) that is a compendium of contemporary styles, ranging from intensely moving, harmonically adventurous laments to joyful sacred songs in Italian and Latin, to witty strophic songs about the joys and perils of romantic love.

A kind of cross between Pop Idol, Voces en Función, Star Search, and Big Brother, the show aimed to find the country's next solo singing sensation, putting a selection of hopefuls through their paces by getting them to sing a variety of cover versions of popular songs ( mainly in Spanish and English, but also sporadically in Italian or Portuguese ), with tutoring from various professionals, and a headmaster like a school ( first 3 series, Nina, 4 and 5 Kike Santander, 6 and 7 Àngel Llàcer ) and 8 with Nina.

It was for solo voice and accompanying instruments, usually basso continuo, and was closely related to the contemporary Italian style of monody.

Miss Violetta Beauregarde is the solo electronic-punk project by Italian performer / model Cristina Gauri.

A cantata ( literally " sung ", derived from the Italian word " cantare ") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir.

The original meaning of the term ( derived from the Italian word suonare, to sound on instrument ) referred to a piece for playing, distinguished from cantata, a piece for singing.

A few years later the acclaimed French baritone Victor Maurel persuaded him to turn his cantata The Light of Asia, based on the life of Buddha, into an Italian opera, La luce dell ' Asia, which was produced at Covent Garden in 1892.

The music proceeds through various key changes as the prophecies unfold, culminating in the G major chorus " For unto us a child is born ", in which the choral exclamations ( which include an ascending fourth in " the Mighty God ") are imposed on material drawn from Handel's Italian cantata Nò, di voi non vo ' fidarmi.

" The melody is adapted from Handel's 1722 cantata Se tu non lasci amore, and is in Luckett's view the most successful of the Italian borrowings.

The French cantata, which should not be confused with the Italian or the German cantata, was " invented " in 1706 by the poet Jean-Baptiste Rousseau and soon taken up by many famous composers of the day, such as Montéclair, Campra, and Clérambault.

Trionfo di Afrodite ( Italian, literally Triumph of Aphrodite ) is a cantata called " concerto scenico " ( scenic concert ) written in 1951 by the German composer Carl Orff.

In the Baroque era, and generally called a Serenata ( Italian " serenade "-- since this form occurred most frequently in Italy ), a serenade was a type of cantata performed outdoors, in the evening, with mixed vocal and instrumental forces.

Shortly after 1600 the form began to disappear, overtaken by newer forms based on Italian ( especially Venetian ) models: the chorale concerto, and later the chorale cantata.

The Italian cantata in the seventeenth century ; vol. 6.

Italian religious music played an important role in this development, which was documented in an " unparalleled example of ancient Hungarian music ", the Harmonia Caelestis of Prince Pál Eszterházy, who tried to create a distinctively Hungarian style of church music using influences from opera, oratio literature, the German music of Johann Kaspar von Kerll and Johann Schmeltzer, and the oratorio and cantata styles.

The first generation of television chefs such as Robert Carrier and Julia Child tended to concentrate on cooking based primarily on European, especially French and Italian, cuisines.

However, by the late eighteenth century, Italian tended to be replaced by German as the second modern language in the curriculum.

Because the Italian for channels is canali, English translations tended to render the word as " canals ", implying artificial construction.

In German, the equivalent is Krieg ; the equivalent Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian words for " war " is guerra, derived from the Germanic werra (“ fight ”, “ tumult ”).< ref > Diccionario de la Lengua Española, 21 < sup > a </ sup > edición ( 1992 ) p. 1071 </ ref > Etymologic legend has it that the Romanic peoples adopted a foreign, Germanic word for " war ", to avoid using the Latin bellum, because, when sounded, it tended to merge with the sound of the word bello (" beautiful ")

The French-speaking Crusaders either could not, or did not care to, pronounce the name Lefkosia, and tended to say " Nicosie " translated into Italian and then internationally known as " Nicosia ".

Although many Catholics supported the Italian intervention, they nonetheless remained supporters of the Bourbon monarchy at heart and tended to support anything that would weaken Bonaparte's polictial position.

Birds in the Italian Alps tended to build their nest close to water in steep cliffs or tall trees.

In his work, he tended to concentrate more on the story and drama of the opera than on flashy technical displays by the singers, as was the norm in Italian opera at that time.

English bills tended to be relatively short, with broad chopping heads, while Italian bills ( ronche ) often had very long thrusting points.

European audiences tended to prefer an Anglo-American in the lead, so Italian bodybuilders would adopt English pseudonyms for the screen ( Sergio Ciani became Alan Steel, for example ).

These bombers were painfully slow — Italian engineers had been unable to develop sufficiently large piston aircraft engines ( those that were produced tended to explode through extreme overheating ), and so the bombers used for the Battle of Britain were woefully undersized.

The last names of Italian professors tended to be similar more often than predicted by random chance.

Italian-Canadians born during the Post-World War II baby boom and Italian immigrants from the 1960s onwards have tended to settle in the Corso Italia neighbourhood around St. Clair Avenue and Dufferin Street and in Toronto's suburbs.

Unfortunately, his time at Juventus was less than successful, as he scored only eight times in 29 games ; though this partly explained by the Italian tradition at this time of tighter defences meaning that strikers tended to score fewer goals in Italy than they did in England.

Probably because Northern Europeans preferred to run their own farms rather than to subject themselves to indentured work and the Portuguese tended to work in commerce, Italian immigrants were brought to work the fields.

The Italian series tended to attract older drivers who moved straight across from karting whereas in other nations drivers typically graduated to F3 after a couple of years in minor categories.

Members of Black Brigades were issued standard Italian army uniforms, and they tended to wear them with a black turtleneck sweater, which had replaced the original black shirt as the symbol of loyalty to Mussolini.

The French-speaking Crusaders either could not, or did not care to, pronounce the name Lefkosia, and tended to say " Nicosie " translated into Italian and then internationally known as " Nicosia ".

With only 5 or 6 large herds still tended by butteri today in the unspoiled national park of Maremma ( the rest of Italy's livestock largely raised by commercial concerns ), the tradition of the butteri is still relived outside the park in small demonstrations in the region's rural towns and in the Italian equivalent of rodeos.

While Howard tended to use the English sonnet form in his own work, reserving the Petrarchan form for his translations of Petrarch, Wyatt made extensive use of the Italian sonnet form in the poems of his that were not translation and adaptation work.