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  2. Vocal music - Wikipedia

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    Vocal music typically features sung words called lyrics, although there are notable examples of vocal music that are performed using non-linguistic syllables, sounds, or noises, sometimes as musical onomatopoeia, such as jazz scat singing. A short piece of vocal music with lyrics is broadly termed a song, although in different styles of music ...

  3. Without a Song - Wikipedia

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    Without a Song" is a popular song composed by Vincent Youmans with lyrics later added by Billy Rose and Edward Eliscu, published in 1929. It was included in the musical play , Great Day . The play only ran for 36 performances but contained two songs which became famous, "Without a Song" and "Great Day".

  4. A cappella - Wikipedia

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    Another famous example of emulating instrumentation instead of singing the words is the theme song for The New Addams Family series on Fox Family Channel (now Freeform). Groups such as Vocal Sampling and Undivided emulate Latin rhythms a cappella. In the 1960s, the Swingle Singers used their voices to emulate musical instruments to Baroque and ...

  5. Fanny Crosby - Wikipedia

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    Their song "There's Music in the Air" (1854) became a hit song [111] and was listed in Variety Music Cavalcade as one of the most popular songs of 1854; [112] it was in songbooks until at least the 1930s [113] and became a college song at Princeton University. [100] "Rosalie, the Prairie Flower" (1855) Lyrics: Fanny Crosby Music: Wurzel (George ...

  6. Cantabile - Wikipedia

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    Cantabile [kanˈtaːbile] is a term in music meaning to perform in a singing style. The word is taken from the Italian language and literally means "singable" or "songlike". [ 1 ] In instrumental music, it is a particular style of playing designed to imitate the human voice .

  7. Song - Wikipedia

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    Songs with more than one voice to a part singing in polyphony or harmony are considered choral works. Songs can be broadly divided into many different forms and types, depending on the criteria used. Through semantic widening, a broader sense of the word "song" may refer to instrumentals, such as the 19th century Songs Without Words pieces for ...

  8. Singing - Wikipedia

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    Men and women with lower voices rarely sing in these registers. Lower-voiced women in particular receive very little if any training in the flageolet register. Men have one more additional register called the strohbass, which lies below the chest voice. Singing in this register is hard on the vocal cords, and therefore, is hardly ever used.

  9. Contrafactum - Wikipedia

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    In vocal music, contrafactum (or contrafact, pl. contrafacta) is "the substitution of one text for another without substantial change to the music". [1] The earliest known examples of this procedure (sometimes referred to as ''adaptation'') date back to the 9th century used in connection with Gregorian chant.