Featured Artist - Gloriae Dei Cantores


Style Guide-Classical


Classical music covers a whole millennium of music, from the earliest of Gregorian chant to modern serious music from the 20th and 21st centuries.

The performers generally sing using Bel Canto technique developed through extensive vocal training. Sometimes they eliminate vibrato when stylistically appropriate (as in some Renaissance polyphony or Gregorian chant), but more often they have a full and free vibrato.

Rhythms are performed without swing - and sometimes the singers are swing-challenged when they take on pop songs.

The repertoire includes folk songs, church music and the occasional jazz standard, but the rhythmic interpretation and vocal tone of classical singers generally sets them apart from world, gospel and jazz groups.

Popular groups include The Kings Singers, Chanticleer and groups directed by the late Moses Hogan.
 
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