A Cappella Music Analysis

Introduction

Song is an art that having created from a combination of word known as lyrics and rythem to ensure the beautiful melody. According to Allan (2014), people’s attitude are affected by their favourite song. People tend to have calmness when listening to music. Chen and Chen (2009) state that listening to the English song is considered as one of the effective teaching style to motivate elementary school students to learning English. People have a different taste of music. They can find the excitement of music through a different genre such as a cappella song, ballad song and nasyid song.

Cappella Song

A cappella songs knows from the sequal of movie ‘Pitch Perfect’ and ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ which a group of people who performs the song by using mouth to create a melody and sing without any music instruments. According to Schloneger (2012), the existence of a cappella song on 1909 and its continue until the next forty years where people at Hesston College was performed completely a cappella because the musical instrument were forbidden. To create a perfect harmony, a cappella groups must build a great teamwork and need to understand each other task. When a group of a cappella performed on the stage, they

need to have fun because it will be one of the way to attract the audience.
Ballad Song
One of the genre that popular among teenagers is ballad song. There are rock ballads, soul ballads, country ballads and even heay metal ballads. When people hear about ballads, they immediately imagine of song like the love melodies and poetic forms. A ballad is type of poem that set to the music. According to Sahin (2012), ballad derive from the late Latin and Italian word ‘ballata’ which means to dance. The example of top ballad song is ‘Let It Go’ which widely popular from ‘Frozen’ movie in 2014. The ballad song become popular in England in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in the Queen Elizabeth time (Sahin, 2012). According to Sahin (2012), the oldest ballad belong to the year 1300 which are written in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads published by Francis James Child. People who are falling in love are more addicted to hear the ballad song.
Nasyid Song
Nasyid is a musical art that has a islamic teaching and lessons.

People need entertainment to release their stress and problem. Sometimes our soul need to be feed, so nasyid song is the best way to fill our soul with a good thing. According to Fikri and Tibek (2014), to fulfill the needs of man, a healthy body and healthy mind need entertainment to avoid weariness, boredom and the feeling of tiredness. Some entertainment are dangerous for Muslim because it can lead to forget Allah. Fikri and Tibek (2014) state that entertainment in Islam is the sake to seek closeness to Allah. The lyrics of nasyid mostly have moral values and religion advice. The example of nasyid song in Malaysia is Balqis by UNIC and international’s nasyid song is Freedom by Maher

Zain.
Conclusion
Take everything into consideration, song is a something that very important in our life. When we play the song, we can gain calmness and find the peace in our heart. Every song has a different specialization that can get their own fans.