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 ).

Music was much simplified ; and a radical distinction developed between, on the one hand, parish worship where only the metrical psalms of Sternhold and Hopkins might be sung ; and on the other hand, worship in churches with organs and surviving choral foundations, where the music of John Marbeck and others was developed into a rich choral tradition.

By then he was strongly influenced by the great composers of the Italian Baroque and the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition.

In the Western art music tradition, vocal music arranged for four singers in an opera or choral work is referred to as a quartet.

The large scale dramatic works of Karl Jenkins seem to hearken back to the theatricality of Orff, and the music of James MacMillan continues the tradition of boundary-pushing choral works from the United Kingdom begun by Britten, Walton, and Leighton.

Notable composers and arrangers of choral music in this tradition include William Dawson, Jester Hairston and Moses Hogan.

Ironically in view of Byrd's own religious beliefs, it was his Anglican church music which came closest to establishing a continuous tradition, at least in the sense that some of it continued to be performed in choral foundations after the Restoration and into the eighteenth century.

Vaughan Williams's own music was in general quite different from Holst ’ s, but he praised Holst's work abundantly and the two men developed a shared interest in exploring and maintaining the English vocal and choral tradition as found primarily in folk song, madrigals and church music.

They also sang the alto parts in Handel's choruses, and it was as choral singers within the Anglican church tradition ( as well as in the secular genre of the glee ) that countertenors survived throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.

Particularly in the British choral tradition, the terms male soprano and male alto serve to identify men who rely on falsetto vocal production, rather than the modal voice, to sing in the soprano or alto vocal range.

There are some impressive male ensembles in the Russian Orthodox Church choral tradition and also there are some excellent Jewish ensembles.

In addition to its musical culture, Ceos had a rich tradition of athletic competition, especially in running and boxing ( the names of Ceans victorious at Panhellenic competitions were recorded at Ioulis on slabs of stone ) making it fertile territory for a genre of choral lyric that Simonides pioneered — the victory ode.

He emerged as a soloist from this choral tradition, largely as a result of the admiration of the composer Michael Tippett, who heard him while at Canterbury and recognized the unique beauty of his voice.

The founder's statutes included provision for a choral foundation of men and boys ( a tradition that has continued to the present day ) and made reference to the pronunciation of the name of the College in English.

It is a tradition that continues today with the choral services of evensong and Eucharist during term.

But an event occurred that provided him with a scenario ideally fitted to his conception of a work both contemporary and in the grand choral tradition of Bach's Passions and Handel's Messiah.

The great composers of the Italian Baroque and the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition significantly influenced Handel in his approaches to composition.

Per tradition, the audience yells each unrevealed answer in a choral response.

However, the beginning of a Norwegian tradition of choral singing itself takes place during the XIX century.

This tradition is the joint work of composers, conductors, singing teachers and choral music publications.

The choral tradition has since been exploited to strengthen the Norwegian identity.

There is a long tradition of western classical music, both instrumental and choral, dating back to the colonial era under the British.

Sweden also has a prominent choral music tradition, deriving in part from the cultural importance of the Swedish folk songs.

The former draws its tradition from the Byzantine Empire, with key elements being used in Russian Orthodox bell ringing, as well as choral singing.

Naturally, Mr. Deller and the other singers in his troupe are most charming and elegant when they are squarely in their tradition and singing music by their countrymen: William Byrd, Thomas Morley and Thomas Tomkins.

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

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

In Glasgow and the central areas of Scotland, the tradition is to hold Hogmanay parties involving singing, dancing, the eating of steak pie or stew, storytelling and drink ; these usually extend into the daylight hours of 1 January.

A few pubs have stage performances such as serious drama, stand-up comedy, musical bands, cabaret or striptease ; however juke boxes, karaoke and other forms of pre-recorded music have otherwise replaced the musical tradition of a piano or guitar and singing.

On Boxing Day and New Year's Day, it is a tradition for some residents to don blackface and parade through the town singing ' minstrel ' songs.

It is one of the easiest forms of part singing, as only one line of melody need be learned by all parts, and is part of a popular musical tradition.

The crop over tradition began in 1688, and featured singing, dancing and accompaniment by bottles filled with water, shak-shak, banjo, triangle, fiddle, guitar, and bones.

This tradition of unison choir singing lasted from sometime between the times of St. Ambrose ( 4th century ) and Gregory the Great ( 6th century ) up to the present.

The singing of Pentecost hymns is also central to the celebration in the Western tradition.

The tradition of Christmas Midnight Masses, the celebration of Easter on Sundays, the keeping of a seven-week Lent before Easter and the singing of the Gloria are usually attributed to his pontificate, but some historians doubt that such attributions are accurate.

This tradition has not been held in recent years, although every year after the inter house song competition, Galpin's House and School House have a similar, non adjudicated shouting match, with more emphasis on volume than anything else, often including the chant " you're not singing any more ".

The bop revival of the 1970s renewed interest in bop scat singing, and young scat singers viewed themselves as a continuation of the classic bop tradition.

The publication of Gontiér's Méthode Raisonée de plain-chant ( 1859 ) was followed by Dom Pothier's Mélodie Grégorienne d ' après la tradition ( 1880 ) in which he advocated singing the chant in ' rythme oratoire ' ( oratorical rhythm ), which still involved giving the majority of sung notes the same durational length.

This tradition is similar to the singing of the state song at the post parades of the first two Triple Crown races: " My Old Kentucky Home " at the Kentucky Derby and " Maryland, My Maryland " at the Preakness Stakes.

There is no tradition of this style of singing there.

Countertenors, though rarely described as such, therefore found a prominent part in liturgical music, whether singing a line alone or with boy trebles or altos ; ( in Spain there was a long tradition of male falsettists singing soprano lines ).

During the 1985 playoff series against Edmonton Oilers, the Black Hawks and their fans started a tradition of cheering during the singing of " The Star-Spangled Banner ".

It is a tradition for Blackhawks fans to applaud and cheer loudly during the singing of the national anthems.

They perform the ring shout, an African tradition of counterclockwise movement performed to singing, chanting and percussive accompaniment utilizing the hands and feet, that has been passed down from African ancestors from generation to generation.

Bremen is the home of Hugh McGraw, a noted scholar of American hymnody and the foremost expert in the Sacred Harp tradition of shape note singing.

The singing of songs over the wall are still known as " a Gordouli ", and the tradition continues as the students gather to sing following boat club dinners and the bi-weekly fancy dress parties.

The Tujia are renowned for their singing and song composing abilities and for their tradition of the Baishou Dance ( 摆手舞 ), a 500 year old collective dance which uses 70 ritual gestures to represent war, farming, hunting, courtship and other aspects of traditional life.

The tradition of singing carols outside of church influence, early in the nineteenth century is best illustrated by Thomas Hardy's novel " Under the Greenwood Tree " ( 1872 ).