- abra-cadabra. Scat
singing is
essentially all
vocables. Many
Native American songs consist entirely of
vocables; this may be due to both
phonetic substitution...
- use of non-lexical
vocables prevents bias to one
particular language.
Other traditional musical forms employing non-lexical
vocables include:
Puirt à beul...
-
vocal jazz, scat
singing or
scatting is
vocal improvisation with
wordless vocables,
nonsense syllables or
without words at all. In scat singing, the singer...
- In lexicography, a
vocable (from Latin: vocabulum) is the word or
phrase which is
explained by a
dictionary entry and
serves as its title.
Often several...
- or
people known locally. The
chorus to many
waulking songs consists of
vocables, in
which some of the
words are meaningless,
while others are
regular Gaelic...
- settings.
Nigunim are
melodic tunes,
often using repetitive non-lexical
vocables such as "bim-bim-bam", "lai-lai-lai", "yai-yai-yai", or "ai-ai-ai" rather...
-
improvised vocables,
puirt à beul
lyrics are
fixed and
almost always consist of "real" (i.e., lexical) words,
although sometimes vocables are also present...
-
written subtitles, or intertitles. Instead,
characters communicate through vocables, and
share moments of
intensive gazing as a
substitute for conversation...
-
traditional Plains-Pueblo
Native American music where the
first section uses
vocables and the
second uses
meaningful words or lyrics.
Typical formal schemes...
-
accompanied by ad libs from Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs, uses
onomatopoeic vocables and multi-syllabic
rhymes on his 1995
collaboration with R&B group, 112...
