Ages ago, I asked what the term is for the belief that one belongs to a branch of humanity that is separate and superior to others. I still haven't found the answer.
Also, I often want to use a word that describes singing without lyrics. "Vocalisation", "non linguistic syllables" and "non-lexical vocables" seem acceptable but not exactly likely to roll off the tongue.
Also, is there a term for when you learn a new word or phrase and then suddenly notice it everywhere?
Scat singing is an often-used term for singing without recognizable (or even any) lyrics.
Doesn't scat involve improvisation?
There's nothing improvised about it when the Swingle Singers do the 1812 Overture.
Solfège, I have just learned, is the term for when you sing using only the syllables that represent tones--in English, "do re me, etc." For example, the song "Do Re Mi" in the Sound of Music, where the kids sing "Sol Do La Ti Do Re Do" instead of words. That Wikipedia site goes on to talk about syllables in other languages.
(Apropos of the thread on sounds and how your brain tries to make things familiar: the Wiki article starts out
>In music, solfège , also called solfeggio, sol-fa, solfedge, or solfa) is a pedagogical solmization technique
Naturally, my brain turned that into "pedagogical sodomization.")
Ages ago, I asked what the term is for the belief that one belongs to a branch of humanity that is separate and superior to others. I still haven't found the answer.
Didn't we decide that "ethnocentrism" worked? Ethnocentric: characterized by or based on the attitude that one's own group is superior
Gob music. Gob is an irish word for mouth (less polite than béal) and I have only heard gob music used for a particular traditional type of song with a drone rather than words. Not to be confused with what are called " diddeldi eye" songs.
Ages ago, I asked what the term is for the belief that one belongs to a branch of humanity that is separate and superior to others. I still haven't found the answer.
Beatbox is the term often given to a variety of forms of musical vocalisation without words. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatboxing
The Irish or more general Gaelic "diddledy" singing can be called lilting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilting
Scat singing is an often-used term for singing without recognizable (or even any) lyrics.
An unfortunate term, but another distinct member of this family. Not to be confused with Ska, which isn't.
As to singing without lyrics, the verb is -- or should be -- to swingle
The Swingle Singers also sang more conventionally (and very skilfully), as well as doing what might today be called beatboxing. (By strange chance, by entirely independent connections, I know two ex-Swingle Singers.)