vocal music
Music with words
Vocal music is music performed by singers, with or without instrumental accompaniment.
The term distinguishes sung works from purely instrumental pieces: The concert featured both vocal music and orchestral selections.
Vocal music encompasses opera, choral works, art songs, and popular music with lyrics.
- beltingForceful chest-voice singing
- power balladEmotional slow rock song
- art songComposed vocal setting poetry
- operaTheatrical art combining song
- barbershop quartetFour-voice a cappella ensemble
throat singing · Gregorian chant · melisma · falsetto · spirituals · scat singing · a cappella · choir practice · vibrato · cantata · gospel · sea shanties · madrigal · protest songs · rap · yodeling · harmonizing · folk songs
- Early MusicGregorian chant, motet, troubadours, plainchant, madrigals
- audio artssinging, opera, jazz, blues, rap
- Argentine musictango, milonga, folklore, cumbia, gato
- Finnish MusicSibelius, Finlandia
- Ethiopian MusicGigi, golden age
- Georgian musicsacred chants, religious chants, traditional chants, three-part harmony
sound source
vocal musicinstrumental music
Music without vocals
instrumentals · instrumental · orchestral music · chamber music · symphonic music
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