Wailing woman
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title:
Wailing woman
text:
The wailing woman is a musical motif and solo vocal effect that features "an exotic-sounding, ululating female singer" traditionally heard in the soundtracks of epic films and historical dramas. Generally composed in half-steps and featuring heavy vibrato, the "ethnic sounding" wailing woman technique is a "melodious lament" with unintelligible words and an "ethnic" vocal timbre, usually set in the natural minor, harmonic and/or melodic minor scale. The mournful wail, typically sung in alto, may
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Musical motif and solo vocal effect
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wailing_woman
date created:
2023-04-21T08:19:29Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T06:32:50Z
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