Lacking in music vocabulary I'm finding it hard to articulate, but I am looking for songs (or the genre) that use sounds and made up words purely for its aesthetic quality. The closest thing I can conceive of is something like Adiemus which uses vocals as an instrument where the words have no inherent meaning of themselves. Beatboxing I think comes close too but the 'vocabulary' in beatboxing seems somewhat more limited.
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2Check out "scat-singing". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scat_singing– OlliCommented May 3, 2019 at 8:13
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1@Olli scat-singing is one class of this. Since scat involves (usually) sneaking a lot of words into the stream, it's not the same as purely singing a sequence of "voice shapes" such as la-la-fa-tu-tu, e.g.– Carl WitthoftCommented May 3, 2019 at 11:51
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Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins used to make up/pick up random words just for their sound.
Search terms that may interest you:
- an invented language is called idioglossia;
- the broader study of euphony (what sounds good) is phonaesthetics.
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wow thanks! you read my mind with those search term suggestions! Gotta get reading.– JodicCommented May 7, 2019 at 6:30
Nat King Cole's "Frim Fram Sauce" comes to mind as does the "Hapsut Song."
