MUS 2420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tuvan Throat Singing, Fundamental Frequency, Chest Voice
Document Summary
Fundamental tone: lowest tone in harmonic series also referred to as first harmonic which determines the perceived pitch of a sound. Register: subset of range of a voice/instrument. Harmonics: series of simple vibrations that combine to create complex pitched sound. Artii-sayir (far side of a dry river bed) Throat singing by vasili chazir in 1990. Function: tuvan throat singing of the herdsmen. Sound is being created vocally without instruments. Setting: inner asian republic of tuva, central asia, practiced outdoors. Used to describe the natural environment surrounding the herdsmen, calm livestock, communicate with other herdsmen. Ups and downs in the music describes the mountain range. Recording features low register fundamental tone with husky vocal quality. Khoomii throat singing features the use of chest voice which produces fundamental tones with harmonics sounding in higher register. The setting is likely to be on steppes of central asia amongst herders of other nomadic native peoples.
