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Tuvan Throat Singers

Date Submitted: 07/11/2001 03:31:54
Category: / Arts & Humanities / Music
Length: 5 pages (1261 words)
Views: 156116

Throat singing is a unique method of singing, or vocal art in which a singer can simultaneously sing, creating two, sometimes three or four notes. This miraculous method of singing is exercised by a number of Asian tribes, and a rich tradition survives in Tuva. Located deep in Siberia surrounded by grasslands, forests and mountains, the presence of humans is rare, in fact the whole population numbers only 150,000. The people who occupy this land, seem …

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…c.d.'s. Throat singing is a private method of singing, which represents mans oneness with nature. It has roots embedded so deep in Tuva's cultural heritage and defining who they are as people, and has now gone public for the world to listen in awe, wondering where the synthesizers are, then realizing it is a pure human voice. Something truly unique to the Tuvans, this method of singing known commonly to them as Khoomei.

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