An ancient singing style Yodel：Explicate and examples

• Main Authors: Ke, Wei-Ting, 柯瑋庭
• Other Authors: 吳榮順
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/69054188363653112809

碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 音樂學研究所 === 103 === Yodel, jodel, yodeling or jodeling is generally used to refer a singing characterized by rapid register alternations between chest register to head register. In Alpine regions of Europe, peasants and herdsmen used yodel to communicate when they were working in the valley, and using yodel to call their beasts moving. This singing style has no lexical meaning, the wide intervals are between sixth and seventh. Yodel belong a oral tradition, nowadays people coin two terms to define yodel origin and development：naturjodel and jodellied. In alpine regions, yodel have ancient developed, but in the world we can find many kind of this singing style. Do they belong alpine singing style? Do they develop from alpine singing style ? Or just a variant? How about their own singing style and develop? It need people to research those different kind of yodel singing style in the world. Besides that according to the literature, I found in East Europe, Central Africa Pygmes, Solomon Islands, and in Taiwan also have some yodel style songs. Do those songs belong European yodel style? A branch? Do they occur from other culture? In this essay, I discuss different regions yodel style and Taiwan yodel style.