English-Finnish translations for a cappella

Definition of a cappella

  • In a manner of a choir with no instrumental accompaniment; literally, "in the style of the Chapel ", such as a musical Mass done ''a cappella''. Brown, Lesley, ed. ''The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.'5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • In ''alla breve'time
  • Singing solely or mainly without instrumental accompaniment.
  • Related to a form of purely vocal music mostly associated with American college performance groups
  • alla breve

Examples

  • Groups of teens singing a cappella on street corners got recording contracts
  • An a cappella group sang during the wedding reception

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