Frequently heard with marked, forced vocalizing.
Read the Coding Guide for this Line. Listen to each example at least twice. Once you have listened to all the examples, take the Test which follows.
S. America. Warao (Orinoco Delta). A Guarauno medicine man sings a curing song in the raspy voice that many Indigenous American shamans employ in their therapeutic chants. (Preloran, 3b) None. N. America, N. Central U.S. Chicago African American, Louis Armstrong plays a strain of the “Yellow Dog Blues” by W.C. Handy. Used by permission of Handy’s daughter Katherine Lewis and Columbia Records. (Armstrong #2, A2) Slight. S. Africa. Madagascar. Mahafaly male bard (the ethnonym indicates Arab influence) with lyre and sticks. (Courlander #1, C25) N. America, Southeast U.S. A Black Mississippi prisoner growls a field holler about a woman who “ain’t nothin’ but a downtown money waster.” (Lomax #35) N. America, N. Central U.S. Plains Sioux. Male group with drum performs a Rabbit Dance. (Rhodes #1, A2) S.E. Asia, N. Laos. Male solo with khene (mouth organ) performing a festival dance. (Beamish, II6) Great. S.E. Asia, Philippines, Maguindanao. An epic chant by a Moro man. (Maceda #1, C1) Intermittent. N.W. Europe, Ireland, County Tyrone. A weaver’s song. (Kennedy (& Lomax) #5, A 8) . N.W. Europe, Scotland, Aberdeen. A ballad of courtly love. (Lomax #33, A12) N.W. Europe, England. In Newcastle, where industry was established early, a girl mourns the death of her lover on a coal barge. Female solo. (Lomax (& Kennedy) #34, A4) N. America, N. E. Canada. Eskimo, Hudson Bay. A magic rune to help the hunt, with the Arctic pattern of using vocables, irregular rhythm, and the burry, raspy voice of the tireless hunter. Male solo. (Barbeau #1, B 38; collected by J. Gabus) N. America, S. Central. Arkansas and the burr-voiced, ironic, laconic style of the Oklahoma-Ozark region, which was frontier country until the late 19th century. Male solo with accordion. (Driftwood, B2) S.E. Asia, Burma. Urban music with a distinctively humorous Burmese touch, performed by an energetic male singer with oboe, flute, drum, and gong frame (12 tuned gongs). (Myint, A4) S. Africa, S. Mozambique. A Chopi man laments the theft of his palm trees, accompanying himself in polyrhythm by shaking a little sprig of dry seed pods. (Tracey #2 (TR-205), Ad6)Which degree of Rasp can you hear in these examples?
For each example below, choose the feature that best fits from the following scale.
Extreme rasp
Great rasp
Intermittent rasp
Slight rasp
None
Consult the Coding Guide as needed. Note your answers in order to check them against the answer key.
Australia. An Arnhem Land Aborigine sings a totemic clan song about the damala (white sea hawk) swooping down from the clouds and catching fish. Male solo. (See #20.) (Elkin #5, 3) Reveal Answer N. America, Southeast U.S. Virginia. An original lyric song in pre-blues style, performed by a professional rural quartet accompanied by guitar. (Lomax #6, A5) Reveal Answer S. Asia. Nepal. Young Botean Sherpa girls of this Himalayan society of porters and farmers sing to greet European mountain climbers, “Welcome, where do you come from?” (Cronk, A6) Reveal Answer N. Australia, Near Cape York, Yarrabah. An Aboriginal elder sings solo with a tense, noisy vocal delivery and in a unique cadential style. In this society senior males kept their ascendancy by holding elaborate song rituals for totemic, place-attached ancestors, practicing genital mutilation in initiation, and marrying pre-adolescent girls. (Molye & Griffin, A14) Reveal Answer S.E. Asia, Thai. A singer who had been trained in the art of refined embellishment performs a genre of song to “soothe tired kings,” accompanied by an ensemble of two-string violins, sitar (chakay), flageolet, oboe, and ching (tiny cymbal). (Kaufman, B4) Reveal Answer N. Europe. Hebridean male duet in port-a-beul, Gaelic for vocal dance music (in Scots, “diddling”; in Irish, “lilting”), formerly widespread in N. Europe. (Lomax #33, B 23) Reveal Answer C. Africa. A Babinga hunter-gatherer, a woman, leads a group in a wordless contrapuntal song performed as a magic spell for elephant hunting. (Schaeffner & Rouget, B35) Reveal Answer W. Africa, Republic of Cameroon. Fut (Bafut) young men and women make their own tight, swinging rhythm for a moonlight dance. Female leader with male group. (Ritzenthaler, A4a) Reveal Answer W. Europe. Paris guildsmen sing, “Love of the Virgin links the compagnons together in a strong web.” Male leader with male group. (Marcel-Dubois & Andral, A2) Reveal Answer N. Sardinia. Sardinian shepherds and brigands preserve ancient polyphonic traditions that are in the same musical family as those of Genoa and Georgia. Their brassy vocal delivery is heard also in songs from Bahrain and Mongolia. Male solo with male group. (Lomax (& Carpitella) #29, B37) Reveal AnswerLine 35 Test Answers: 1) Extreme. 2) Intermittent or medium. 3) Little or no. 4) Great. 5) Slight. 6) Great. 7) Little or no. 8) Intermittent or medium. 9) Slight. 10) Extreme.