European Singing

I'm an Irish girl so I was going to make this post about Irish music but then realised how utterly boring that would be so instead I am going to do Croatian singing.
The most famous style of Croatian singing is the traditional a capella Klapa singing. 'Klapa' originally meant 'a group of people' and has its roots in church singing. This style of singing is usually unaccompanied and is found along the Dalmatian coast. This music is occasionally accompanied by a guitar and mandolin but they play very softly. Kapa music is usually made up of all male voices; two tenors, a bass and a baritone.
Although klapa is an ancient stlye of singing, there are still new songs being composed every day and there are klapa festivals all over Croatia, the most famous being the Omis festival.

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