Homi, hoomii throat song

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MONGOLIA SAIJIKI

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Homi, hoomii, khuumei - throat song

***** Location: Mongolia
***** Season: Topic
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation

хөөмий Khöömei, Hömi, Homie, Mongolian throat singing

Perhaps the best-known musical form of the Mongols is the throat singing tradition known as hoomii - khoomei , extant among all or most Mongols though best known internationally from Tuva. Sung differently than traditional vocals. In Mongolia, the most famous throat-singers include Khalkhas like Gereltsogt and Sundui, while the Tuvan group Huun-Huur-Tu has an international following.

Tuvan throat singing is one particular variant of overtone singing practiced by the Tuva people of southern Siberia.





The art of Tuvan throat singing is a style in which one or more pitches sound simultaneously over a fundamental pitch, producing a unique sound. The history of Tuvan throat singing reaches very far back. Many of the male herders can throat sing, but women are beginning to practice the technique as well. The popularity of throat singing among Tuvans seems to have arisen as a result of geographic location and culture. The open landscape of Tuva allows for the sounds to carry a great distance. Ethnomusicologists studying throat singing in these areas mark khoomei as an integral part in the ancient pastoral animism that is still practiced today. Often, singers will travel far into the countryside looking for the right river, or will go up to the steppes of the mountainside to create the proper environment for throat-singing.

The animistic world view of this region identifies the spirituality of objects in nature, not just in their shape or location, but in their sound as well. Thus, human mimicry of nature's sounds is seen as the root of throat singing. (An example is the Mongolian story of the waterfall above the Buyan Gol (Deer River), where mysterious harmonic sounds are said to have attracted deer to bask in the waters, and where it is said harmonic sounds were first revealed to people.) Indeed, the cultures in this part of Asia have developed many instruments and techniques to mimic the sounds of animals, wind, and water. While the cultures of this region share throat singing, their styles vary in breadth of development.

It is simply the harmonized sounds that they are able to produce from deep within their throats.Ordinarily, melodies are created by isolating the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 12th partial in accordance with the harmonic series (if fundamental frequency were C3, the overtones would be:
G5, B♭5, C6, D6, E6, G6).
The base pitch is typically around a G below Middle C.
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HAIKU

September heat―
the throat-song of Om
after a long bath

- Shared by Santíago Víllafanía, Philippines -
Joys of Japan, 2012


. Aum, Om, A-Un 阿吽 .


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a melody of khuumei
flows through my heart
and recedes . . .

Zaya Nergui


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