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  2. Singing - Wikipedia

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    Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. [ 1][ 2][ 3] A person whose profession is singing is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music ). [ 4][ 5] Singers perform music ( arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments.

  3. History of music - Wikipedia

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    During the 9th century, several important developments took place. First, there was a major effort by the Church to unify the many chant traditions and suppress many of them in favor of the Gregorian liturgy. Second, the earliest polyphonic music was sung, a form of parallel singing known as organum.

  4. Vocal music - Wikipedia

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    Vocal music. A men's chorus from the 1940s or 1950s. Vocal music is a type of singing performed by one or more singers, either with instrumental accompaniment, or without instrumental accompaniment ( a cappella ), in which singing provides the main focus of the piece. Music which employs singing but does not feature it prominently is generally ...

  5. Choir - Wikipedia

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    t. e. A choir ( / ˈkwaɪər / KWIRE; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform or in other words is the music performed by the ensemble. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which spans from the medieval ...

  6. Throat singing - Wikipedia

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    Tuvan throat singing (or Mongolian throat singing) is a form of singing comprising several techniques; it is practiced in the Republic of Tuva, belonging to the Russian federation, [ 13][ 14][ 15][ 1] in Mongolia and in China. [ 16][ 2][ 17] Buddhist chants, found in some monasteries in India (Tibetan exiled communities) and Tibet, sometimes ...

  7. A cappella - Wikipedia

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    puirt à beul. Music performed a cappella ( / ˌɑː kəˈpɛlə / AH kə-PEL-ə, UK also / ˌæ kəˈpɛlə / AK ə-PEL-ə, Italian: [a kkapˈpɛlla]; [ 1] lit. 'in the style of the chapel' ), less commonly spelled a capella in English, [ 2] is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.

  8. History of dance - Wikipedia

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    Archaeology delivers traces of dance from prehistoric times such as the 10,000-year-old Bhimbetka rock shelters paintings in India and Egyptian tomb paintings depicting dancing figures from c. 3300 BC. Many contemporary dance forms can be traced back to historical, traditional, ceremonial and ethnic dances of the ancient period.

  9. Vocal harmony - Wikipedia

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    Vocal harmony. The Dapper Dans, a barbershop quartet singing in four-part harmony at Walt Disney World. Vocal harmony is a style of vocal music in which a consonant note or notes are simultaneously sung as a main melody in a predominantly homophonic texture. Vocal harmonies are used in many subgenres of European art music, including Classical ...