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Subject:Acapella
Posted by: ILL_EAGLE
Date:8/21/2004 5:09:49 AM
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Subject:RE: Acapella
Reply by: DKeenum
Date:8/21/2004 6:46:45 AM
No instruments. Just vocal. google it. Do a search of the site. You'll find a lot of stuff. |
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Subject:RE: Acapella
Reply by: Iacobus
Date:8/21/2004 10:56:17 AM
Main Entry: a cap·pel·la Variant(s): also a ca·pel·la /"ä-k&-'pe-l&/ Function: adverb or adjective Etymology: Italian a cappella in chapel style : without instrumental accompaniment :o) Iacobus ------- RodelWorks - Original Music for the Unafraid mD's ACIDplanet Page Guitars 4 Kids |
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Subject:RE: Acapella
Reply by: DKeenum
Date:8/21/2004 11:51:07 AM
You didn't happen to look that up did you? |
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Subject:RE: Acapella
Reply by: Iacobus
Date:8/22/2004 8:56:47 AM
I know what a capella is. I thought a trip to Merriam-Webster's site could do a better job explaining it than I could. :) Iacobus ------- RodelWorks - Original Music for the Unafraid mD's ACIDplanet Page Guitars 4 Kids |
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Subject:RE: Acapella
Reply by: TorS
Date:8/25/2004 5:29:59 AM
Merriam-Webster turned out imprecise on this one. Capella (from Greek) means orchestra - court orchestra to be precice. You have the same word in the German Kapellmeister, which of course is conductor. a- means non- as in amoral or agnostic. So acapella means simply without orchestra. Which incidentally was the dominating style in chapels. Tor |
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Subject:RE: Acapella
Reply by: vanblah
Date:8/25/2004 8:05:05 AM
A Cappella is short for Alla Cappella ... Italian ... usually interpreted as "in the style of the chapel". Older church music was written for voice only. A Capella has come to mean any music written for unaccompanied voice (as we all know). Most musical terms come from Italian ... I can't find anything in Ancient Greek that translates orchestra to capella. The closest I get to Greek is orchistra (also symfonia; armonia). Chapel comes from Old French "chapele" and Latin "capella." I don't know how much etymology we want to go into here. <edit> I checked with one of the professors of Greek and Roman Studies at the college I work at. Capella is a Greek word for "she-goat." That's even better than orchestra. In the style of she-goats. </edit> |
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Subject:RE: Acapella
Reply by: TorS
Date:8/25/2004 9:28:18 AM
I think I've heard that orchestra :-) But yes, I missed on the Greek. Doublechecking revealed that the G meant German. Tor |