Re: Tonal Songs and glossalalia
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 12, 1999, 22:28 |
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On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 00:32:35 -0700 Sally Caves <scaves@...>
writes:
>How "universal" is the tradition of tonal singing? What is its
>relationship to invented languages? I ask this, because Yaguello
>and Schnapp sometimes seem to confuse this kind of language invention
>with the stuff that we are doing. (Schnapp's remark about "infantile"
>syllables, "open vowels" etc.; he means "open syllables" Matt told
>me).
Among Hhasidic Jews, there is a lot of use of what are called _nigunim_
(singular _nigun_) which is a song without words....most of the ones i've
heard use syllables like [Oj], [aj], [laj], [jaj], etc. Also among
non-Hhasidim, there are songs with a tune which "becomes" a nigun when
the words run out, or songs that incorporate sections of wordless singing
into the repetition of the lyrics, or the chorus.
-Stephen (Steg)
"God punishes - humans take revenge."
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