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>>>This diary is about the type of singing known as yodeling, usually associated with Eastern European and Alpine settings. But it also was a facet of the genre of ‘singing cowboys’.
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My Mom could yodel Alpine style. She was quite good at it.
Advice: Your cats may not interpret your attempts at yodeling as sounds that their hooman should be making, they may either scoot under the farthest bed, or attack the source.
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All words below from this wiki link: Yodel
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Yodeling is a form of singing which involves repeated and rapid changes of pitch between the low-pitch chest register and the high-pitch head register or falsetto.
Alpine yodeling was a longtime rural tradition in Europe, and became popular in the 1830s as entertainment in theaters and music halls
In the United States, in 1928, blending Alpine yodeling with African American work and blues music styles and traditional folk music, Jimmie Rodgers released his recording ‘Blue Yodel No. 1’.
Rodgers' ‘blue yodel’ (a term sometimes used to differentiate the earlier Austrian yodeling from the American form of yodeling introduced by Rodgers), created an instant national craze for yodeling in the United States;
Most experts agree that yodeling was used in the Central Alps by herders calling their flocks or to communicate between Alpine villages. The multi-pitched "yelling" later became part of the region's traditional lore and musical expression. The earliest record of a yodel is in 1545, where it is described as "the call of a cowherd from Appenzell”. (link: Appenzell, Switzerland)
Music historian Timothy Wise writes:
From its earliest entry into European music of whatever type, the yodel tended to be associated with nature, instinct, wilderness, pre-industrial and pastoral civilization, or similar ideas. It continues to be associated with rural and folk music or to connote those in other contexts. Because of this original folk connection, yodeling remained associated with the outdoors, with rustic rather than sophisticated personae, and with particular emotional or psychological states or semantic fields.
Here’s an example of Alpine-style yodeling.
Sofia Schkidchenko
Here’s an example of cowboy-style yodeling:
LeAnn Rimes and Eddy Arnold
