Inuit Music - Inuit Throat Singing, Overtone Singing, Music of Nunavut, Pamyua, Tudjaat, Ancestors, Taima (Paperback)

Chapters: Inuit Throat Singing, Overtone Singing, Music of Nunavut, Pamyua, Tudjaat, Ancestors, Taima. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Overtone singing, also known as overtone chanting, or harmonic singing, is a type of singing in which the singer manipulates the resonances (or formants) created as air travels from the lungs, past the vocal folds, and out the lips to produce a melody. The partials (fundamental and overtones) of a sound wave made by the human voice can be selectively amplified by changing the shape of the resonant cavities of the mouth, larynx and pharynx. This resonant tuning allows the singer to create apparently more than one pitch at the same time (the fundamental and a selected overtone), while in effect still generating a single fundamental frequency with his/her vocal folds. Another name for overtone singing is throat singing, but that term is also used for Inuit throat singing, which is produced differently. Tuvan throat singing is practiced by the Tuva people of southern Siberia. The history of Tuvan throat singing reaches very far back. There is a wide range of vocalizations, including Sygyt, Kargyraa (which also uses a second sound source), Khoomei, Chylandyk, Dumchuktaar, and Ezengileer. Tuvas neighbouring states, the Altai Republic to the west, and Khakassia to the northwest, have developed forms of throat singing called kai, or khai. In Altai, this is used mostly for epic poetry performance, to the accompaniment of topshur. Altai narrators ("kai-chi") perform in kargyraa, khoomei and sygyt styles, which are similar to Tuvan. They also have their own style, a very high harmonics, emerging from kargyraa. Variations of kai are called karkyra, sybysky, homei and sygyt. The first well-known kai-chi was Kalkin. The Chukch...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=6398