Voice instrumental music - Ancient voice music

Voice instrumental music is the term used for compositions and improvisations for the human voice. This kind of music treats the human voice as an instrument just like the violin or the piano. It seeks to use the expressive capabilities of the human voice to express and perform music without words like a spontaneous improvisation on percussion or a violin sonata. It involves a class of singing which does not use words. In these cases the voice is normally being used as if it is a ...

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• Voice instrumental music - Mediterranean-voice instrumentals
• Voice instrumental music - Ancient voice music
• Voice instrumental music - European classical - Voice instrumental music
• Voice instrumental music - Voice instrumental in 20th century Classical music
• Voice instrumental music - Voice Transmutation in experimental Classical music
• Voice instrumental music - Various folk traditions
• Voice instrumental music - Voice instrumentals in Jazz and Popular Music
• Voice instrumental music - Onomatopoeia

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Its use may even be older, considering that contemporary music and classic European music developed as a derivative of its parents, the Classic Poetry and the Myth-Drama plays from the Fertile Crescent Civilizations of Ancient Asia Minor and Northern Africa (Egypt, Rome, Persia, Mesopotamia Valley, Greece, Ethiopia, etc). Interestingly, the modern descendants of the ancient !Kung tribes and clans of Southern Africa utilize similar traditional music techniques. That could mean the pract ...

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The most common types of voice improvisation in the Western world are found in jazz which knows it as scat singing and vocalese. Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald were both famous for their scat singing, and many other major figures in jazz, from Betty Carter to Mel Torme, also use the form. In pop music, doo-wop and other forms of rhythm and blues music employ it; in the Gaelic tradition, there are many terms for it, one of which is diddling. The nonsense choruses of old English ballads, "Hey nonny nonny" and the like are another well kno ...

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Voice instrumental music, Voice instrumental music - Mediterranean-voice instrumentals, Voice instrumental music - Ancient voice music, Voice instrumental music - European classical - Voice instrumental music, Voice instrumental music - Voice instrumental in 20th century Classical music, Voice instrumental music - Voice Transmutation in experimental Classical music, Voice instrumental music - Various folk traditions, Voice instrumental music - Voice instrumentals in Jazz and Popular Music, Voice instrumental music - Onomatopoeia

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A form of Voice improvisation known as Thillana is a very important feature of Carnatic music from South India. Tuvinian throat singing often features wordless and improvised song. The sygyt technique is a particularly good example of this. The Sámi yoik is also a predominantly wordless form of vocal expression. The musical tradition of "mouth music" (Puirt a Beul) was used in various f ...

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Voice instrumental music, Voice instrumental music - Mediterranean-voice instrumentals, Voice instrumental music - Ancient voice music, Voice instrumental music - European classical - Voice instrumental music, Voice instrumental music - Voice instrumental in 20th century Classical music, Voice instrumental music - Voice Transmutation in experimental Classical music, Voice instrumental music - Various folk traditions, Voice instrumental music - Voice instrumentals in Jazz and Popular Music, Voice instrumental music - Onomatopoeia

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The French composer Pierre Boulez makes use of voice transmutation which he calls as centre and absence. In this the voice is used as an initial compositional model but which would not appear in the final form. Voice transmutation are also done by composers like Jonathan Harvey in compositions like Mortuos plango, vivos voco which interpolates the voice into instrument with the aid of computer techni ...

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Voice instrumental music, Voice instrumental music - Mediterranean-voice instrumentals, Voice instrumental music - Ancient voice music, Voice instrumental music - European classical - Voice instrumental music, Voice instrumental music - Voice instrumental in 20th century Classical music, Voice instrumental music - Voice Transmutation in experimental Classical music, Voice instrumental music - Various folk traditions, Voice instrumental music - Voice instrumentals in Jazz and Popular Music, Voice instrumental music - Onomatopoeia

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In Classical music, especially, since the music of Arnold Schoenberg, Carl Orff and Wagnerian composers, the role of voice instrumental music for solo vocalist, voices or chorus, as part of the orchestral score, has become very prominent. The tradition of voice instrumental is very old and strong one in European classical music. It has its roots in the Jewish Nigun and further elaborated in the Gregorian chants. The Vocal instrumental concerto and the figured bass, along with a cappella compositions, during the baroque were a form of ...

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Voice instrumental music, Voice instrumental music - Mediterranean-voice instrumentals, Voice instrumental music - Ancient voice music, Voice instrumental music - European classical - Voice instrumental music, Voice instrumental music - Voice instrumental in 20th century Classical music, Voice instrumental music - Voice Transmutation in experimental Classical music, Voice instrumental music - Various folk traditions, Voice instrumental music - Voice instrumentals in Jazz and Popular Music, Voice instrumental music - Onomatopoeia

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In 20th century classical music, one of the most prominent voice instrumental composers was the German composer Carl Orff. He composed voice instrumental music like Carmina Burana and Catulli Carmina, using voices and choral music which created forceful and primitive inspired rhythmic patterns and simple but powerful harmonic structure. The Second Viennese School, especially Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg made the elaborate use of voice as instrument in what they called as Sprechmusik and Sprechstimme. Schoenberg employed these in h ...

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Voice instrumental music, Voice instrumental music - Mediterranean-voice instrumentals, Voice instrumental music - Ancient voice music, Voice instrumental music - European classical - Voice instrumental music, Voice instrumental music - Voice instrumental in 20th century Classical music, Voice instrumental music - Voice Transmutation in experimental Classical music, Voice instrumental music - Various folk traditions, Voice instrumental music - Voice instrumentals in Jazz and Popular Music, Voice instrumental music - Onomatopoeia

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A form of Voice improvisation known as Thillana is a very important feature of Carnatic music from South India. Tuvinian throat singing often features wordless and improvised song. The sygyt technique is a particularly good example of this. The Sámi yoik is also a predominantly wordless form of vocal expression. The musical tradition of "mouth music" was used in various forms of traditional music in the Anglo-Saxon and Gaelic communities. Hasidic Jews use a form of voice improvisation called nigunim. This consist ...

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Voice instrumental music, Voice instrumental music - Mediterranean-voice instrumentals, Voice instrumental music - Ancient voice music, Voice instrumental music - European classical - Voice instrumental music, Voice instrumental music - Voice instrumental in 20th century Classical music, Voice instrumental music - Voice Transmutation in experimental Classical music, Voice instrumental music - Various folk traditions, Voice instrumental music - Voice instrumentals in Jazz and Popular Music, Voice instrumental music - Onomatopoeia

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