Ancient singing techniques

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(2017-09-13, 09:57 AM)Brian Wrote: Kulning is still being taught

So is throat singing

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Producing The Bulgarian folk voice

Very broadly she explains that for the folk voice to have its power, singers try to keep the weighty quality that we have in our voice when we speak naturally.  As we sing higher, there is a temptation to switch into that ‘church choir’, angelic, sweet voice that is sometimes called head voice.
You can often hear when people switch between their normal speaking level voice and their head voice. It is this switch that allows people to yodel and lots of folk singers consciously employ it, whereas classically trained singers spend a lot of time trying to smooth over this obvious ‘break’.
Dessi points out that if we keep this speech quality to our voices as we sing higher, it produces a ‘twang’ (rather like a seagull!), but can become very unpleasant and whiny quite quickly.
The secret is to open the back of your throat (as you do when you yawn) as you’re singing. This is why Bulgarian singing (and other similar styles) is often known as ‘open-throat singing’.
'Inside' the tones is information that, apparently, the cows understand. They take the vibrations and translate them as directions to do this or that. The girl is empathetic to them so this musical example is a correlated with teleMpathy.
(2017-09-13, 09:03 PM)Pssst Wrote: 'Inside' the tones is information that, apparently, the cows understand. They take the vibrations and translate them as directions to do this or that. The girl is empathetic to them so this musical example is a correlated with teleMpathy.

Well, I dont know about that... They seem to come and/or show interest in just about any constant sound - like a trombone. Smile








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