Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ~Victor Hugo
The A CaPittsburgh Project is an annual benefit a cappella concert founded in 2008 by Counterpoint, Carnegie Mellon University's only all-female a cappella group. Now entering its fourth year, A CaPitt continues to be one of the biggest a cappella events of the season, bringing together all of Carnegie Mellon's a cappella groups as well as several from the University of Pittsburgh.
What is A Cappella?
A cappella is a style of music in which singers are unaccompanied by any musical instrument. Music can range from choral arrangements, to barbershop, to the more familiar "college a cappella," where musical lines typically pciked up by guitars, trumpets, and basses are instead mimicked by voices. The name, Italian for "in the manner of the chapel" is derived from a centuries old tradition of religious chapel music being composed only for voices, since the smaller chapels tended not to have organs to accompany the singers.