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Definition of A cappella singing
1. Noun. Singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Generic synonyms: Singing, Vocalizing
Examples of category: Gospel, Gospel Singing
Lexicographical Neighbors of A Cappella Singing
Literary usage of A cappella singing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Music Review and Church Music Review by American Guild of Organists (1906)
"The introduction of a cappella singing may have to be slow, but I do not believe
that there is a church in the land, which will not gradually come to ..."
2. A Dictionary of Musical Terms: Containing Upwards of 9,000 English, French by Theodore Baker (1895)
"... to sing false ; especially, to flat (gradually lower the pitch) in a cappella
singing. Det'to (It.) Aforesaid ; the same. Deutsch (Ger.) German. ..."
3. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Being the Sixth Volume of the by Charles Newell Boyd, Waldo Selden Pratt (1920)
"... and Italian masters, such as Palestrina and Orlando di Lasso, and also the
modern schools of a cappella singing, appealing to a highly cultivated taste. ..."
4. An Open Door for Singers: Hints to Vocalists by Reinhold Ludwig Herman (1912)
"... have different faces, and any singing except a cappella singing (ie, choral
or concerted unaccompanied singing), must be classed under that head. ..."
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