About this minute
- Title
- Mouth Music
- Contributor
- Topic Records
- Location
- Mongolia, Asia
- Collections
- Collection 1
- Related resource guides
- Compositions , Human , Pitch , Throat singing , Timbre , Voice , Voice , World
Collection 1 #55
You just heard a style of singing called ‘mouth music’ or ‘throat singing’! Although throat singing is used in many different countries, it is thought to have started in Mongolia, which is where this recording was made. It actually takes a lot of strength and skill to do it properly, as the singer has to…