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A cappella
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A cappella is, like many musical terms, a phrase with multiple definitions. As a musical term, "a cappella" means what it means in its native Italian: "In the manner of the chapel." At the time, instruments weren't allowed in churchesnote The style contrasted with cantata, which is singing accompanied by instruments, and there was also a difference between polyphony and concertato style, so everything had to be done solely through voice. "A cappella" just means a voice, or voices, alone. It is either the oldest or the second-oldest expression of music to have been invented (the other being "hitting stuff rhythmically"). Singing in the Shower trying to hit the high notes of a-ha's "Take On Me" counts as a cappella singing. However, the one thing we can say about our erstwhile shower soloist is that "trying to hit the high notes in the shower" is not a complete expression of the music — nor is it meant to be. As a style, "A cappella" is when vocalists get together to perform complete expressions of music using nothing but their voices: in addition to a melody and lyrics, there will be backing chords, a bass line, and even some form of rhythm. This distinction is important because A Cappella, the style, transcends genre. It can be applied across multiple places such as religious music, choirs, barbershop, doo-wop, doit, beatboxing, popular music and so on. Traditionally, religious music and holidays' songs like Christmas carols might be performed without any instrumental accompaniment. (This was an Enforced Trope for Shaker religious music.) Also gospel music and choir performances often don't feature any instruments. Barbershop is a uniquely American style, typified by consonant four-part chords for every melody sung in homophony. They usually perform easily understandable lyrics and easy melodies. You may also recognize them by their striped outfits with straw hats. Doo-wop is a style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music developed in black communities in the 1940s, achieving mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. Doit is vocal ornamentation used in jazz music. Popular music often involves covers, partially because most yet-to-be-"discovered" musicians make their names via covers. They will contain vocal approximations, sometimes one-to-one imitations and sometimes modified interpretations, of the instruments used. They may also contain beatboxing, a form of vocal percussion in which musicians produce drum beats, rhythm, and sounds with only their mouth, lips, tongue or voice. It's connected with Hip-Hop, but not exclusively. Pentatonix is the group that put this section of the trope on the map. Musical talent shows frequently have the auditions part sung A cappella. Tons and tons of YouTubers do A cappella covers of various songs (often with the original recording playing in the background) and sometimes create and sing new ones. |
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's "Find the Cost of Freedom" is an A Cappella song with lots of harmonizing that they regularly used to finish off concerts. | |
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"Hi How Are You?" and "She Called Pest Control" from Daniel Johnston's Hi, How Are You and "King Kong", "The Dead Lover's Twisted Heart" and "Rarely" from his album Yip/Jump Music. | |
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The final battle between Dante and Vergil during Vergil's campaign in the Special Edition of Devil May Cry 5 kicks off with an A Cappella rendition of the final chorus of Vergil's theme, "Bury the Light" It sets the tone quite nicely for the final battle. | |
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Peter Hollens sings multiple vocal tracks, frequently a hundred or more, for his recordings. He frequently records with other vocalists, notably his wife Evynne Hollens, Avi Kaplan and Tyler Ward, as well as other musicians such as Lindsey Stirling. | |
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Gilmore Girls: There are a cappella performers at Yale during the parents' day. Lorelai flees from them as fast as she can. | |
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Chumbawamba has done several songs acapella, notably some versions of "The Day the Nazi Died". Their album "English Rebel Songs: 1314-1984" was entirely acapella. | |
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Rockapella from Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego. They sing a cappella, while rocking out. The group is still touring today, though all four founding members have moved on to other projects. | |
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On Psych, Gus is revealed to have been in an a cappella group in college when his old bandmates seek him out for a case. For that episode, the show even got Boyz II Men to perform the theme song a cappella. | |
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In one flashback episode of The Simpsons, Homer, Skinner, Apu and Barney performed as Be Sharps, a barbershop quartet and they are epically successful. Their career path mirrored The Beatles. | |
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NateWantsToBattle's Cover Version of "Bonetrousle" from Undertale. | |
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Da Ali G Show: Ali G is a wanna-be hip-hop artist and he would do beatboxing from time to time, often improvising on the topic that was discussed. As if the guests were not trolled enough already. | |
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Lunar: The Silver Star: Luna/Althena's "Song" from Lunar Silver Star Story. Here is a youtube link. This song is used as a kind of "theme" that's attempted by others in singing, though tempo and quality varies. It's kind of the game's "staple song" and is incredibly familiar to all who've played the game in any of its incarnations. | |
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"The Dust Blows Forward And The Dust Blows Back", "Well", "Orange Claw Hammer" from Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart. | |
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In Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, "Kyrie eleison," "Pie Jesu Domine" and "Requiescant in pace" conclude three of the work's sections with quiet variations on the same mournful chord progression, with the chorus accompanied only intermittently by the bells tolling their dismal tritone together. | |
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Crash Twinsanity's entire soundtrack is performed by an A Cappella group named Spiralmouth, including the cutscenes. | |
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The Blanks: A cappella group fronted by Sam Lloyd who plays Ted Buckland on Scrubs. The band has made many appearances on Scrubs, introducing themselves as The Worthless Peons. They have covered many things ranging from commercial jingles to TV show theme songs. | |
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Tracy Chapman's song "Behind the Wall" is a haunting a cappella song about a domestic abuse incident turned violent, and how the police do absolutely nothing to help the situation. | |
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The second piece of sung music you hear in BioShock Infinite is a barbershop arrangement of The Beach Boys' "God Only Knows," written and performed by the real-life quartet A Mighty Wind (dba The Bee Sharps). | |
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The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: In "A Cumberland Ninja in King Radical's Court", King Radical employs a Dubstep Quartet, who perform a cappella bass drops. Weaponized a cappella bass drops. | |
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Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3 has nearly half its tracks done in a capella. | |
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In The Music Man (both the stage play and the film) Professor Harold Hill teaches the four squabbling members of the school board to sing Barbershop. All of their performances from then on are a cappella. All the other songs, performed by anyone else, have orchestral accompaniment (except for "Rock Island," which isn't really sung anyway). In both the original production and the film, the School Board was played by the Buffalo Bills, the 1950 International Quartet Champions of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA). | |
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19 years after The Saw Doctors released their song "Red Cortina", they released an a capella version for charity. | |
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"Si puer cum puella" from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana is sung by the male chorus a capella. The sequel Catulli Carmina has the singers entirely unaccompanied except in the framing scenes. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Special Edition: In one video, the game degrades because not enough people believe it's real. One of the symptoms is that the level music is replaced by a crude a cappella cover version. In the very last video, apropos of nothing, there's an a cappella version of the Sonic 2 ending cutscene music, this time With Lyrics. | |
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The first Pitch Perfect film centers around the a cappella scene in American universities, particularly the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella competition. | |
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On his Paint channel, Jon Cozart sings his songs a cappella in multiple parts, then mixes them together for the final result. | |
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Ultra Fast Pony has a bonus video where the cast sings an a cappella version of (Soft Cell's version of) "Tainted Love" | |
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On Schitt's Creek Moira, Jocelyn, Twyla and Ronnie all sing in the town's ladies a cappella group The Jazzagals. | |
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NiGHTS into Dreams…: Christmas NiGHTS Into Dreams has an a cappella version of the game's main vocal theme "Dreams Dreams" over the credits. | |
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy has a hilarious Big-Lipped Alligator Moment of the guys singing an A cappella "Afternoon Delight". | |
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The Pirates of Penzance has the entire cast joining in singing the a cappella anthem "Hail Poetry". | |
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In Cabaret, a male chorus sings "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" mostly a cappella. | |
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Eddie at The LMV has The LMV band, who have covered songs in this style, such as "It's In Her Kiss" by The Hollies and a mash-up of two Scooby-Doo show theme tunes. | |
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Brawl of the Objects: Six words; A Rap by Popsicley and Chocolatey. | |
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Todd Rundgren has an entire album of a cappella music entitled, appropriately, "A Cappella". While several songs use vocal samples to create drum and keyboard tracks, the only sounds on the album are Todd's voice. | |
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Andy from The Office was a member of an a cappella group at Cornell. In one episode he asserts that all songs sound better without instruments, although it's also been shown that he can play banjo. | |
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In The Sound of Music, the opening chant and most of the Latin hymns are sung by the nuns' choir without accompaniment, though the orchestra does provide light accompaniment for the canticle "Confetimini Domino" (sung at the wedding) as well as full accompaniment for their reprises of "Maria" and "Climb Ev'ry Mountain." | |
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Smooth McGroove sings songs from video games a cappella. | |
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Glee: Blaine's group the Dalton Academy Warblers is an all-male a capella group (played by the Real Life Tufts University Beelzebubs, in their second TV appearance after competing on The Sing-Off). In the final scene of "Lights Out" (the acoustic episode), this is how the students did "The Longest Time" (in "doo wop" form). |
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In one Archie Comics story, while the Archies are driving to a concert, their van keeps breaking down and they have to take apart their instruments to fix it. When when they finally reach the concert, they're forced to improvise and sing A cappella. | |
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NewsRadio had an episode where Dave was visited by the other three members of his a capella group. | |
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The West Wing: "Holy Night" includes an appearance by The Whiffenpoofs who are visiting the White House. Toby Ziegler's father, who is also visiting, has been a fan of the group since the 1950's which leads to a touching moment when he learns the source of the singing he's been hearing all day. | |
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van Canto is an a cappella metal band, which besides using real drums creates all of the guitar effects vocally, and covers the songs of other metal bands. | |
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In the anime version of The iDOLM@STER, President Kuroi convinces the audio technician from the Idol Jam to conveniently forget where he put the CD with the 765PRO idols songs. This comes to bite him in the rear, when Chihaya starts to sing in A Cappella, making the tech (and crowd) be so moved by the scene that he restarts the audio in the next chorus, effectively creating a greater effect on the public than it would be if she had just started singing normally. | |
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Super Mario Sunshine has secret levels in which the background music, "Platforms a Plenty", is an a cappella version of the original Super Mario Bros. theme. | |
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In an episode of Mad About You, Paul walks past an A Cappella group singing the theme song, which he'd cowritten. To further mess with the wall, he mentions its familiarity. At the end of the episode, Paul and Jamie listen to the same group singing the theme again as the end-credits play. This time, Paul recognizes the tune and grins with satisfaction, but does not identify the tune out loud. | |
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In Peer Gynt, the Morning Hymn in Act V is supposed to be sung a cappella, though some editions of the score include an accompaniment for rehearsal purposes only. | |
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In Incredibox, you make your own acapella band. | |
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The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Filli Vanilli" features an A Cappella singing group, "The Ponytones". | |
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Tones on Tail's "Slender Fungus" is composed of vocals over rhythmic mouth noises. | |
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Haken does this in parts of "Cockroach King", the opening of "Because It's There", and the mid-way point of "Crystallised". | |
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*NSYNC were more famous as a Boy Band, but their ability to perform a cappella in five-part harmony is their musical genesis and remains their point of pride. Hell, their name comes from the fact that they could sing a cappella in harmony. Unaccompanied numbers include "I Thought She Knew" from their second album, No Strings Attached, and "O Holy Night" for their Christmas album. In addition, they contributed an a cappella version of "When You Wish Upon a Star" for the DisneyMania CD series and have performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" for the 2000 World Series and 2002 Winter Olympics as well as an a cappella tribute to The Bee Gees for the 2003 Grammys. | |
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Queen, "We Will Rock You" from News of the World. The song is generally set in a cappella form, using only stomping and clapping as a rhythmic beat, except at the very end, which has a guitar solo. "We Will Rock You" has been covered, remixed, sampled, parodied, homaged, referenced and used by multiple recording artists, TV shows, films and other media. | |
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Yoko Ono and John Lennon read newspaper clippings about them by singing them during "No Bed For Beatle John" on Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions. | |
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The opening and ending credits of the Mappy web series are acapella renditions of the game's themes. | |
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Sia has two on her debut album OnlySee, "Mad Love" and "Tripoutro". | |
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The themes to Mighty Mouse Playhouse and its 1987 reboot, Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, were both performed A cappella. | |
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Coco: The scene where Héctor is singing "Remember Me" starts out with him singing it a cappella with no music, then when it changes to the flashback of him singing it to little Coco the acoustic guitar slips in, then slips back out upon returning to the present. The album version keeps the guitar intact for the entire song. | |
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On American Idol auditionees have to sing a cappella during the first rounds, however, later in the competition, they sing with backing music. | |
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Home Free, also victors of NBC's The Sing-Off alongside PTX, is a rare country music a cappella group, doing a mix of contemporary and classical country covers. | |
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There was an episode of Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place where the Girl had visions of an a capella group that would appear out of nowhere and sing Wilson Phillips songs. | |
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In "Slutty Pumpkin" of How I Met Your Mother, Ted goes to a Halloween party at the rooftop with a performance by an a cappella group. Barney thinks the party is super-lame. | |
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Charmed (2018): One episode has Maggie and Lucy join their school's a capella group. Their director gets posessed by a pitch pipe and tries to turn the group into sirens to prove that it was his music that made the original sirens powerful in the first place. | |
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Friends: In "The One with All the Jealousy", Monica dates a co-worker named Julio who is a foreigner and a pretentious poet. In one of his poems, he refers to her as an "empty vase", then later claims it was a reference to all American women, not just her. Monica gets her revenge by sending a barbershop quartet to the diner to ridicule him (and call him a buttmunch) while he's hitting on another woman. Well played. | |
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"The Union Forever", a Citizen Kane Shout-Out from The White Stripes' White Blood Cells, has a bridge made up only of handclaps and Jack's vocals. | |
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