Is There A Specific Musical Term For This?

[Buzz Dixon]

Is there a specific term for a cappella music without any lyrics, just sounds or tones or syllables? I know scat is the term when used with be-bop style jazz, but the kind of music I'm thinking of is like the chorus during the Bolivian bank robbery montage in BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID.

Is there a specific term for wordless a cappella music other than...a cappella?

[section 8]

Is there a specific term for a cappella music without any lyrics, just sounds or tones or syllables? I know scat is the term when used with be-bop style jazz, but the kind of music I'm thinking of is like the chorus during the Bolivian bank robbery montage in BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID.

Is there a specific term for wordless a cappella music other than...a cappella?

A cappella is Singing with no other music, like a barber shop quartet

[Your Imaginary Pal]

gibberish?

[escapegoat]

So are you talking about made up sounds and tones emulating a language? Like SIgur Ros's Hopelandic, or Karl Jenkins stuff in Adiemus?

Either way, if it's doen without musical instrumentation, then it's still considered a cappella.

If you've actually developed an actual language to your tones and syllables, then you can always give it whatever name you want to... :wink:

[JKCarrier]

Apparently the technical term is "Non-lexical vocables" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-lexical_vocables_in_music)... doesn't exactly trip off the tongue.

[Solaris]

Is there a specific term for a cappella music without any lyrics, just sounds or tones or syllables? I know scat is the term when used with be-bop style jazz, but the kind of music I'm thinking of is like the chorus during the Bolivian bank robbery montage in BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID.

Is there a specific term for wordless a cappella music other than...a cappella?

I don't know, but in Ireland, there's a traditional form of humming or singing sounds/syllables rather than words, and IIRC it's called "lumming." Maybe our Irish posters could fill you in more, or you might find more on wiki...

[Buzz Dixon]

Apparently the technical term is "Non-lexical vocables" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-lexical_vocables_in_music)... doesn't exactly trip off the tongue.Thanx, JKC!

[Paul McEnery]

I don't know, but in Ireland, there's a traditional form of humming or singing sounds/syllables rather than words, and IIRC it's called "lumming." Maybe our Irish posters could fill you in more, or you might find more on wiki...

I didn't know that word for it. My Grandad used to call it "diddly diddly" music for what I trust are obvious reasons. There is another term, but my brain isn't working today. Damn you Mercury in Retrograde!

But I do know that there's another, more euphonious term for a Scots-Irish thing were meaningless but pleasant sounding noises are put together, and that's Mouth Music.

There's a band with that name, and they do it, and their first album is worth picking up for an example, if you can live with the early 90s beats. Or are they back in fashion again?

[the4thpip]

We call it "yodeling." :cool:

[DaveRothe]

Don't they call it "rap" music? Remember that white guy "Snow" from the 80's rapped that tune called Informer? What the hell is he speaking/rapping? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtILxBszyf8

[Your Imaginary Pal]

Hey,rap is fantastic
unless it's from Speak, The Hungarian Rapper (http://www.stupidvideos.com/video/song_dance/Speak_the_Hungarian_Rapper/#30328).

[section 8]

Don't they call it "rap" music? Remember that white guy "Snow" from the 80's rapped that tune called Informer? What the hell is he speaking/rapping? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtILxBszyf8
lol
that's so hood

[MartinRedmond]

You mean atonal or something? Or tutonal? I think it ends with tonal.

[amboy00]

I suppose you can refer to it as solo or soli. Or choir music.