By now
most people have probably heard of the latest craze of performing arts; acapella.
Thanks to new shows like the sing-off and movies like pitch perfect acapella is
now very very popular. The meaning of the word acapella, from Webster’s dictionary,
is; without instrumental accompaniment. Because
it had no accompaniment vocalist need to be able to recreate sounds of instruments
with their voices, such as a drum hit, a high hat, or even a tambourine. These people
are known as beat boxers and vocal percussionists, they are normally men who
can sing very low and keep time very well. Actually everyone needs to be able
to keep time very well. There are large acapella groups like of twenty to
twenty five people, and there are smaller groups. One of the best known smaller
groups is called Pentatonix. They have 5 members, hence the Penta part of the
name. There are acapella groups that are all men, or all women, or mixed.
Many schools have acapella groups, which is the premise of
Pitch Perfect. In Pitch Perfect they
practice with an all girls group to compete at three different levels of
competition. Their biggest rival is the all men group at their same school. Although
I do find the singing and the movie in general very entertaining I do not think
that this is much like real life at all.
One of the college acapella groups I know about is called BYU
vocal point, standing for Brigham Young University. They are an all male group and
very talented. They competed on the Sing Off against the above mentioned,
Pentatonix.
My personal opinion about acapella is that it can be very
interesting and beautiful type of music. I like to listen to many singers on YouTube
in my spare time.
If you would like to listen to some acapella here are the
links to some of my favorites;
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