What is the term when two people sing in harmony, but they aren't singing the same notes?












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I'm not a musician, and I know basically nothing about music, and music theory and what-not. (I basically just know a few common terms, and how to play chords)



In most songs with two or more people singing, (Duets specifically) the singers almost always sing in harmony, but not the same notes. What term is used to describe this? I want to be able to learn how to do it, but I don't know the specific term to do more research on it.










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    That's called singing in harmony.

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    If they're singing the same note, they are not singing in harmony—they're just singing the same note.

    – only_pro
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  • A good place to start might be the wikipedia page on 'vocal harmony'. And then watch a bunch of episodes of "Glee" for examples. :)

    – Brian D
    23 hours ago






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    Singing the same note is unison

    – Matthew Morrissette
    22 hours ago






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    @Brian Bit harsh, telling the OP to watch Glee.

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I'm not a musician, and I know basically nothing about music, and music theory and what-not. (I basically just know a few common terms, and how to play chords)



In most songs with two or more people singing, (Duets specifically) the singers almost always sing in harmony, but not the same notes. What term is used to describe this? I want to be able to learn how to do it, but I don't know the specific term to do more research on it.










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    That's called singing in harmony.

    – AJFaraday
    yesterday






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    If they're singing the same note, they are not singing in harmony—they're just singing the same note.

    – only_pro
    yesterday











  • A good place to start might be the wikipedia page on 'vocal harmony'. And then watch a bunch of episodes of "Glee" for examples. :)

    – Brian D
    23 hours ago






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    Singing the same note is unison

    – Matthew Morrissette
    22 hours ago






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    @Brian Bit harsh, telling the OP to watch Glee.

    – bornfromanegg
    1 hour ago














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I'm not a musician, and I know basically nothing about music, and music theory and what-not. (I basically just know a few common terms, and how to play chords)



In most songs with two or more people singing, (Duets specifically) the singers almost always sing in harmony, but not the same notes. What term is used to describe this? I want to be able to learn how to do it, but I don't know the specific term to do more research on it.










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I'm not a musician, and I know basically nothing about music, and music theory and what-not. (I basically just know a few common terms, and how to play chords)



In most songs with two or more people singing, (Duets specifically) the singers almost always sing in harmony, but not the same notes. What term is used to describe this? I want to be able to learn how to do it, but I don't know the specific term to do more research on it.







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  • 45





    That's called singing in harmony.

    – AJFaraday
    yesterday






  • 9





    If they're singing the same note, they are not singing in harmony—they're just singing the same note.

    – only_pro
    yesterday











  • A good place to start might be the wikipedia page on 'vocal harmony'. And then watch a bunch of episodes of "Glee" for examples. :)

    – Brian D
    23 hours ago






  • 8





    Singing the same note is unison

    – Matthew Morrissette
    22 hours ago






  • 1





    @Brian Bit harsh, telling the OP to watch Glee.

    – bornfromanegg
    1 hour ago














  • 45





    That's called singing in harmony.

    – AJFaraday
    yesterday






  • 9





    If they're singing the same note, they are not singing in harmony—they're just singing the same note.

    – only_pro
    yesterday











  • A good place to start might be the wikipedia page on 'vocal harmony'. And then watch a bunch of episodes of "Glee" for examples. :)

    – Brian D
    23 hours ago






  • 8





    Singing the same note is unison

    – Matthew Morrissette
    22 hours ago






  • 1





    @Brian Bit harsh, telling the OP to watch Glee.

    – bornfromanegg
    1 hour ago








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That's called singing in harmony.

– AJFaraday
yesterday





That's called singing in harmony.

– AJFaraday
yesterday




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If they're singing the same note, they are not singing in harmony—they're just singing the same note.

– only_pro
yesterday





If they're singing the same note, they are not singing in harmony—they're just singing the same note.

– only_pro
yesterday













A good place to start might be the wikipedia page on 'vocal harmony'. And then watch a bunch of episodes of "Glee" for examples. :)

– Brian D
23 hours ago





A good place to start might be the wikipedia page on 'vocal harmony'. And then watch a bunch of episodes of "Glee" for examples. :)

– Brian D
23 hours ago




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Singing the same note is unison

– Matthew Morrissette
22 hours ago





Singing the same note is unison

– Matthew Morrissette
22 hours ago




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@Brian Bit harsh, telling the OP to watch Glee.

– bornfromanegg
1 hour ago





@Brian Bit harsh, telling the OP to watch Glee.

– bornfromanegg
1 hour ago










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The term "harmony" itself is what you are looking for.
Being able to sing in harmony (2 or more different voices) with someone however doesn't require any more skills or theory than singing alone or in unison (same notes, only one voice) because everyone learns "his notes" as he would do singing alone. The only thing I could think of is having a good ear, maybe good relative pitch, but that is required for soloists singers too.



The hard part is composing or improvising the harmony and that requires a lot of different music theory skills, not only the harmony part. If this is what you are looking for, I would suggest to start with generic music theory or if you are really serious about it, take piano lessons.






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    Being able to sing in harmony (2 or more different voices) with someone however doesn't require any more skills or theory than singing alone or in unison I don't know that this is true. I've seen people who are used to singing in unison and have great difficulty "ignoring" the notes that other people are singing and not matching them.

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    yesterday











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Singing together but different notes is singing in harmony. Singing the same notes would be singing in unison.






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    Singing the same note might also be called "doubling".

    – Todd Wilcox
    yesterday






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    @ToddWilcox Interesting. In my 30 years of singing and recording I've never heard that. When recording, yes, you double it, when singing live (meaning multiple people singing the same notes), they're singing in unison. Might be a stateside thing.

    – Darren Sweeney
    20 hours ago











  • @DarrenSweeney doubling is commonly used in orchestration, as in, "the second flute doubles the first violin section" or "the clarinet doubles the tenor part."

    – phoog
    48 mins ago



















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From a strictly music theory point of view, one might call it counterpoint. The original Latin phrase "punctus contra punctum" (note against note) denotes just that. The term indicates two or more voices, each having their own independent melody (the horizontal aspect in written music), resulting in a harmony (the vertical aspect).






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  • Exactly what I was thinking, if "not the same notes" means "a harmonizing melody in a different rhythm" for the OP.

    – Joe McMahon
    17 hours ago






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    Counterpoint's usually much more than simple parallel harmony, though; with lines that are independent, usually with contrasting rhythms and/or shapes, and can stand alone as melodies in their own right.

    – gidds
    17 hours ago











  • Contrapuntal, and it is seen for guitar.

    – mckenzm
    15 hours ago











  • @gidds is correct, counterpoint is generally in reference to a very specific set of strictures with regard to how one constructs interdependent yet individual melodic lines that, when combined, create specific harmonies.

    – LSM07
    13 hours ago



















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It is called polyphonic singing aka overtone chanting, harmonic singing, or throat singing. Bjork does some (but NOT all) of her singing in a polyphonic manner.



Also refer to Wikipedia documentation as follows:



Overtone singing – also known as overtone chanting, harmonic singing, or throat singing – is a type of singing in which the singer manipulates the resonances (or formants) created as air travels from the lungs, past the vocal folds, and out of the lips to produce a melody.



The harmonics (fundamental and overtones) of a sound wave made by the human voice can be selectively amplified by changing the shape of the resonant cavities of the mouth, larynx, and pharynx.[1] This resonant tuning allows singers to create apparently more than one pitch at the same time (the fundamental and a selected overtone), while actually generating only a single fundamental frequency with their vocal folds.



 Each note is like a rainbow of sound. When you shoot a light beam through a prism, you get a rainbow. You think of a rainbow of sounds when you sing one note. If you can use your throat as a prism, you can expose the rainbow – through positioning the throat in a certain physical way, which will reveal the harmonic series note by note.[2]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtone_singing#Mongolia_and_Buryatia






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  • This seems to refer to a single person producing multiple tones apparently at once. The question is rather about two different people singing together but different notes.

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The term "harmony" itself is what you are looking for.
Being able to sing in harmony (2 or more different voices) with someone however doesn't require any more skills or theory than singing alone or in unison (same notes, only one voice) because everyone learns "his notes" as he would do singing alone. The only thing I could think of is having a good ear, maybe good relative pitch, but that is required for soloists singers too.



The hard part is composing or improvising the harmony and that requires a lot of different music theory skills, not only the harmony part. If this is what you are looking for, I would suggest to start with generic music theory or if you are really serious about it, take piano lessons.






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    Being able to sing in harmony (2 or more different voices) with someone however doesn't require any more skills or theory than singing alone or in unison I don't know that this is true. I've seen people who are used to singing in unison and have great difficulty "ignoring" the notes that other people are singing and not matching them.

    – Peter Olson
    yesterday











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The term "harmony" itself is what you are looking for.
Being able to sing in harmony (2 or more different voices) with someone however doesn't require any more skills or theory than singing alone or in unison (same notes, only one voice) because everyone learns "his notes" as he would do singing alone. The only thing I could think of is having a good ear, maybe good relative pitch, but that is required for soloists singers too.



The hard part is composing or improvising the harmony and that requires a lot of different music theory skills, not only the harmony part. If this is what you are looking for, I would suggest to start with generic music theory or if you are really serious about it, take piano lessons.






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    Being able to sing in harmony (2 or more different voices) with someone however doesn't require any more skills or theory than singing alone or in unison I don't know that this is true. I've seen people who are used to singing in unison and have great difficulty "ignoring" the notes that other people are singing and not matching them.

    – Peter Olson
    yesterday











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The term "harmony" itself is what you are looking for.
Being able to sing in harmony (2 or more different voices) with someone however doesn't require any more skills or theory than singing alone or in unison (same notes, only one voice) because everyone learns "his notes" as he would do singing alone. The only thing I could think of is having a good ear, maybe good relative pitch, but that is required for soloists singers too.



The hard part is composing or improvising the harmony and that requires a lot of different music theory skills, not only the harmony part. If this is what you are looking for, I would suggest to start with generic music theory or if you are really serious about it, take piano lessons.






share|improve this answer















The term "harmony" itself is what you are looking for.
Being able to sing in harmony (2 or more different voices) with someone however doesn't require any more skills or theory than singing alone or in unison (same notes, only one voice) because everyone learns "his notes" as he would do singing alone. The only thing I could think of is having a good ear, maybe good relative pitch, but that is required for soloists singers too.



The hard part is composing or improvising the harmony and that requires a lot of different music theory skills, not only the harmony part. If this is what you are looking for, I would suggest to start with generic music theory or if you are really serious about it, take piano lessons.







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    Being able to sing in harmony (2 or more different voices) with someone however doesn't require any more skills or theory than singing alone or in unison I don't know that this is true. I've seen people who are used to singing in unison and have great difficulty "ignoring" the notes that other people are singing and not matching them.

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    Being able to sing in harmony (2 or more different voices) with someone however doesn't require any more skills or theory than singing alone or in unison I don't know that this is true. I've seen people who are used to singing in unison and have great difficulty "ignoring" the notes that other people are singing and not matching them.

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    yesterday











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Being able to sing in harmony (2 or more different voices) with someone however doesn't require any more skills or theory than singing alone or in unison I don't know that this is true. I've seen people who are used to singing in unison and have great difficulty "ignoring" the notes that other people are singing and not matching them.

– Peter Olson
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Being able to sing in harmony (2 or more different voices) with someone however doesn't require any more skills or theory than singing alone or in unison I don't know that this is true. I've seen people who are used to singing in unison and have great difficulty "ignoring" the notes that other people are singing and not matching them.

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Singing together but different notes is singing in harmony. Singing the same notes would be singing in unison.






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    Singing the same note might also be called "doubling".

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    @ToddWilcox Interesting. In my 30 years of singing and recording I've never heard that. When recording, yes, you double it, when singing live (meaning multiple people singing the same notes), they're singing in unison. Might be a stateside thing.

    – Darren Sweeney
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Singing together but different notes is singing in harmony. Singing the same notes would be singing in unison.






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    Singing the same note might also be called "doubling".

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    @ToddWilcox Interesting. In my 30 years of singing and recording I've never heard that. When recording, yes, you double it, when singing live (meaning multiple people singing the same notes), they're singing in unison. Might be a stateside thing.

    – Darren Sweeney
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    – phoog
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Singing together but different notes is singing in harmony. Singing the same notes would be singing in unison.






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Singing together but different notes is singing in harmony. Singing the same notes would be singing in unison.







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    Singing the same note might also be called "doubling".

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    @ToddWilcox Interesting. In my 30 years of singing and recording I've never heard that. When recording, yes, you double it, when singing live (meaning multiple people singing the same notes), they're singing in unison. Might be a stateside thing.

    – Darren Sweeney
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  • @DarrenSweeney doubling is commonly used in orchestration, as in, "the second flute doubles the first violin section" or "the clarinet doubles the tenor part."

    – phoog
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    Singing the same note might also be called "doubling".

    – Todd Wilcox
    yesterday






  • 1





    @ToddWilcox Interesting. In my 30 years of singing and recording I've never heard that. When recording, yes, you double it, when singing live (meaning multiple people singing the same notes), they're singing in unison. Might be a stateside thing.

    – Darren Sweeney
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  • @DarrenSweeney doubling is commonly used in orchestration, as in, "the second flute doubles the first violin section" or "the clarinet doubles the tenor part."

    – phoog
    48 mins ago








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Singing the same note might also be called "doubling".

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Singing the same note might also be called "doubling".

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@ToddWilcox Interesting. In my 30 years of singing and recording I've never heard that. When recording, yes, you double it, when singing live (meaning multiple people singing the same notes), they're singing in unison. Might be a stateside thing.

– Darren Sweeney
20 hours ago





@ToddWilcox Interesting. In my 30 years of singing and recording I've never heard that. When recording, yes, you double it, when singing live (meaning multiple people singing the same notes), they're singing in unison. Might be a stateside thing.

– Darren Sweeney
20 hours ago













@DarrenSweeney doubling is commonly used in orchestration, as in, "the second flute doubles the first violin section" or "the clarinet doubles the tenor part."

– phoog
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@DarrenSweeney doubling is commonly used in orchestration, as in, "the second flute doubles the first violin section" or "the clarinet doubles the tenor part."

– phoog
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From a strictly music theory point of view, one might call it counterpoint. The original Latin phrase "punctus contra punctum" (note against note) denotes just that. The term indicates two or more voices, each having their own independent melody (the horizontal aspect in written music), resulting in a harmony (the vertical aspect).






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  • Exactly what I was thinking, if "not the same notes" means "a harmonizing melody in a different rhythm" for the OP.

    – Joe McMahon
    17 hours ago






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    Counterpoint's usually much more than simple parallel harmony, though; with lines that are independent, usually with contrasting rhythms and/or shapes, and can stand alone as melodies in their own right.

    – gidds
    17 hours ago











  • Contrapuntal, and it is seen for guitar.

    – mckenzm
    15 hours ago











  • @gidds is correct, counterpoint is generally in reference to a very specific set of strictures with regard to how one constructs interdependent yet individual melodic lines that, when combined, create specific harmonies.

    – LSM07
    13 hours ago
















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From a strictly music theory point of view, one might call it counterpoint. The original Latin phrase "punctus contra punctum" (note against note) denotes just that. The term indicates two or more voices, each having their own independent melody (the horizontal aspect in written music), resulting in a harmony (the vertical aspect).






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  • Exactly what I was thinking, if "not the same notes" means "a harmonizing melody in a different rhythm" for the OP.

    – Joe McMahon
    17 hours ago






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    Counterpoint's usually much more than simple parallel harmony, though; with lines that are independent, usually with contrasting rhythms and/or shapes, and can stand alone as melodies in their own right.

    – gidds
    17 hours ago











  • Contrapuntal, and it is seen for guitar.

    – mckenzm
    15 hours ago











  • @gidds is correct, counterpoint is generally in reference to a very specific set of strictures with regard to how one constructs interdependent yet individual melodic lines that, when combined, create specific harmonies.

    – LSM07
    13 hours ago














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From a strictly music theory point of view, one might call it counterpoint. The original Latin phrase "punctus contra punctum" (note against note) denotes just that. The term indicates two or more voices, each having their own independent melody (the horizontal aspect in written music), resulting in a harmony (the vertical aspect).






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From a strictly music theory point of view, one might call it counterpoint. The original Latin phrase "punctus contra punctum" (note against note) denotes just that. The term indicates two or more voices, each having their own independent melody (the horizontal aspect in written music), resulting in a harmony (the vertical aspect).







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  • Exactly what I was thinking, if "not the same notes" means "a harmonizing melody in a different rhythm" for the OP.

    – Joe McMahon
    17 hours ago






  • 4





    Counterpoint's usually much more than simple parallel harmony, though; with lines that are independent, usually with contrasting rhythms and/or shapes, and can stand alone as melodies in their own right.

    – gidds
    17 hours ago











  • Contrapuntal, and it is seen for guitar.

    – mckenzm
    15 hours ago











  • @gidds is correct, counterpoint is generally in reference to a very specific set of strictures with regard to how one constructs interdependent yet individual melodic lines that, when combined, create specific harmonies.

    – LSM07
    13 hours ago



















  • Exactly what I was thinking, if "not the same notes" means "a harmonizing melody in a different rhythm" for the OP.

    – Joe McMahon
    17 hours ago






  • 4





    Counterpoint's usually much more than simple parallel harmony, though; with lines that are independent, usually with contrasting rhythms and/or shapes, and can stand alone as melodies in their own right.

    – gidds
    17 hours ago











  • Contrapuntal, and it is seen for guitar.

    – mckenzm
    15 hours ago











  • @gidds is correct, counterpoint is generally in reference to a very specific set of strictures with regard to how one constructs interdependent yet individual melodic lines that, when combined, create specific harmonies.

    – LSM07
    13 hours ago

















Exactly what I was thinking, if "not the same notes" means "a harmonizing melody in a different rhythm" for the OP.

– Joe McMahon
17 hours ago





Exactly what I was thinking, if "not the same notes" means "a harmonizing melody in a different rhythm" for the OP.

– Joe McMahon
17 hours ago




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Counterpoint's usually much more than simple parallel harmony, though; with lines that are independent, usually with contrasting rhythms and/or shapes, and can stand alone as melodies in their own right.

– gidds
17 hours ago





Counterpoint's usually much more than simple parallel harmony, though; with lines that are independent, usually with contrasting rhythms and/or shapes, and can stand alone as melodies in their own right.

– gidds
17 hours ago













Contrapuntal, and it is seen for guitar.

– mckenzm
15 hours ago





Contrapuntal, and it is seen for guitar.

– mckenzm
15 hours ago













@gidds is correct, counterpoint is generally in reference to a very specific set of strictures with regard to how one constructs interdependent yet individual melodic lines that, when combined, create specific harmonies.

– LSM07
13 hours ago





@gidds is correct, counterpoint is generally in reference to a very specific set of strictures with regard to how one constructs interdependent yet individual melodic lines that, when combined, create specific harmonies.

– LSM07
13 hours ago











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It is called polyphonic singing aka overtone chanting, harmonic singing, or throat singing. Bjork does some (but NOT all) of her singing in a polyphonic manner.



Also refer to Wikipedia documentation as follows:



Overtone singing – also known as overtone chanting, harmonic singing, or throat singing – is a type of singing in which the singer manipulates the resonances (or formants) created as air travels from the lungs, past the vocal folds, and out of the lips to produce a melody.



The harmonics (fundamental and overtones) of a sound wave made by the human voice can be selectively amplified by changing the shape of the resonant cavities of the mouth, larynx, and pharynx.[1] This resonant tuning allows singers to create apparently more than one pitch at the same time (the fundamental and a selected overtone), while actually generating only a single fundamental frequency with their vocal folds.



 Each note is like a rainbow of sound. When you shoot a light beam through a prism, you get a rainbow. You think of a rainbow of sounds when you sing one note. If you can use your throat as a prism, you can expose the rainbow – through positioning the throat in a certain physical way, which will reveal the harmonic series note by note.[2]


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  • This seems to refer to a single person producing multiple tones apparently at once. The question is rather about two different people singing together but different notes.

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It is called polyphonic singing aka overtone chanting, harmonic singing, or throat singing. Bjork does some (but NOT all) of her singing in a polyphonic manner.



Also refer to Wikipedia documentation as follows:



Overtone singing – also known as overtone chanting, harmonic singing, or throat singing – is a type of singing in which the singer manipulates the resonances (or formants) created as air travels from the lungs, past the vocal folds, and out of the lips to produce a melody.



The harmonics (fundamental and overtones) of a sound wave made by the human voice can be selectively amplified by changing the shape of the resonant cavities of the mouth, larynx, and pharynx.[1] This resonant tuning allows singers to create apparently more than one pitch at the same time (the fundamental and a selected overtone), while actually generating only a single fundamental frequency with their vocal folds.



 Each note is like a rainbow of sound. When you shoot a light beam through a prism, you get a rainbow. You think of a rainbow of sounds when you sing one note. If you can use your throat as a prism, you can expose the rainbow – through positioning the throat in a certain physical way, which will reveal the harmonic series note by note.[2]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtone_singing#Mongolia_and_Buryatia






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  • This seems to refer to a single person producing multiple tones apparently at once. The question is rather about two different people singing together but different notes.

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It is called polyphonic singing aka overtone chanting, harmonic singing, or throat singing. Bjork does some (but NOT all) of her singing in a polyphonic manner.



Also refer to Wikipedia documentation as follows:



Overtone singing – also known as overtone chanting, harmonic singing, or throat singing – is a type of singing in which the singer manipulates the resonances (or formants) created as air travels from the lungs, past the vocal folds, and out of the lips to produce a melody.



The harmonics (fundamental and overtones) of a sound wave made by the human voice can be selectively amplified by changing the shape of the resonant cavities of the mouth, larynx, and pharynx.[1] This resonant tuning allows singers to create apparently more than one pitch at the same time (the fundamental and a selected overtone), while actually generating only a single fundamental frequency with their vocal folds.



 Each note is like a rainbow of sound. When you shoot a light beam through a prism, you get a rainbow. You think of a rainbow of sounds when you sing one note. If you can use your throat as a prism, you can expose the rainbow – through positioning the throat in a certain physical way, which will reveal the harmonic series note by note.[2]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtone_singing#Mongolia_and_Buryatia






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It is called polyphonic singing aka overtone chanting, harmonic singing, or throat singing. Bjork does some (but NOT all) of her singing in a polyphonic manner.



Also refer to Wikipedia documentation as follows:



Overtone singing – also known as overtone chanting, harmonic singing, or throat singing – is a type of singing in which the singer manipulates the resonances (or formants) created as air travels from the lungs, past the vocal folds, and out of the lips to produce a melody.



The harmonics (fundamental and overtones) of a sound wave made by the human voice can be selectively amplified by changing the shape of the resonant cavities of the mouth, larynx, and pharynx.[1] This resonant tuning allows singers to create apparently more than one pitch at the same time (the fundamental and a selected overtone), while actually generating only a single fundamental frequency with their vocal folds.



 Each note is like a rainbow of sound. When you shoot a light beam through a prism, you get a rainbow. You think of a rainbow of sounds when you sing one note. If you can use your throat as a prism, you can expose the rainbow – through positioning the throat in a certain physical way, which will reveal the harmonic series note by note.[2]


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