yodel, descant, melodiously

 In a PR stunt, Yahoo will unveil 30 different logos over 30 days before yodeling the official winner on Sept. 4.


Astoria Journal: Love for a Dog That’s No Bark and All Yodel


15.08. - Inbox: Feedback from Around the World

The name Ludwig van Beethoven gave to his Bagatelle in A minor Wo0 59 is
“Für Elise”. Have you ever wondered who Elise was? We ponder on that
question in this week’s Inbox – and let you hear two very different
versions of that melodious music

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Video: World Music in Rudolstadt

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Music brings all kinds of people together

Once a year the eastern German state of Thuringia awakes to the sound of African drums, Finnish tango and Swiss yodeling for the Folk Roots World Music Festival.

Peter Drucker - yodelling down Mount Fuji
FT.com (blog)
by Stefan Stern A full day of debate, analysis, homage and, just occasionally, longueurs here at the inaugural Peter Drucker forum. ...



The verb yodel has one meaning:
Meaning #1: sing by changing register; sing by yodeling
Synonyms: warble, descant
n.

1. also dis·cant (dĭs'-) Music.
   1. An ornamental melody or counterpoint sung or played above a theme.
   2. The highest part sung in part music.
2. A discussion or discourse on a theme.

intr.v., -cant·ed, -cant·ing, -cants. (dĕs'kănt', dĕ-skănt')

1. To comment at length; discourse: “He used to descant critically on the dishes which had been at table” (James Boswell).
2. also dis·cant (dĭs'kănt', dĭ-skănt') Music.
   1. To sing or play a descant.
   2. To sing melodiously.

[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman descaunt, from Medieval Latin discantus, a refrain : Latin dis-, dis- + Latin cantus, song, from past participle of canere, to sing.]

descanter des'cant'er n.

v. intr. - 用真假音變換地唱或叫喊
v. tr. - 用真假音變換地唱或叫喊
n. - 岳得爾歌

n. - ヨーデル
v. - ヨーデルを歌う, ヨーデル調で歌う

verb (yodels, yodelling, yodelled; US yodels, yodeling, yodeled)

[no object]

• practise a form of singing or calling marked by rapid alternation between the normal voice and falsetto: they had learned how to drop into the lake, yodelling like Tarzan (as noun yodelling)Swiss floor shows with alpine horn-blowing and yodelling (as adjective yodelling)a yodelling song

noun

• a song, melody, or call delivered by yodelling: he heard a yodel from below

Derivatives

yodeller

noun

Origin:

early 19th century: from German jodeln

me·lo·di·ous (mə-lō'dē-əs)
adj.

1. Of, relating to, or containing a pleasing succession of sounds; tuneful.
2. Agreeable to hear: a melodious voice; the melodious song of a bird.

melodiously me·lo'di·ous·ly adv.
melodiousness me·lo'di·ous·ness n.