Cultural Music with High/Low Singing (627 views)

[Captain Planet]

We all know about the famous Mongolian throat singing, but do you guys know of any other cultural singing with significant notes.

Today I was watching a documentary on an Indian Gypsy tribe, and there is a guy at 31:10 who sings is a surprisingly toneful high voice, with nice C#5's and even gets up to E5 with little difficulty:

[Brenda]

it doesn't seem modal to me, you can hear his voice cracking a bit, but it's cracking downwards because it's a mixed/head voice thing

[Rodney Blazershorts]

Feb 21, 2022 0:35:46 GMT Brenda said:

it doesn't seem modal to me, you can hear his voice cracking a bit, but it's cracking downwards because it's a mixed/head voice thing

Who cares.

['S]

[insert half of my threads]

I guess I'll just do highlights then:

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{Loud and big F5s and B♭5s, powow-style:}

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{Complex melisma, rapid pace, and really strong tone, singing up to E5:}

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{Cute old lady lows}

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{Lushness and harmonies up to F5}

[Brenda]

Don't know if this counts, but here's a The Voice participant imitating the sound of a "cuíca" while singing, the cuíca is a high pitched instrument from Brazil that makes these kind of wailing sounds, it's a big part of the "lament" of samba. Timestamp: 0:50