This collection showcases diverse singing styles, classical and popular, from around the world. Compare and contrast them: Italian opera, African-American blues, a Kurdish love song, a Jewish prayer, a North African traditional song, Chinese opera, Swiss yodeling, and even the crooning style of Bing Crosby! Liner notes include an introductory essay and track notes by Henry Cowell.
5 Crooning Style - Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day
6 Russian Operatic Style - I Hate a Dreary Life
7 Blues Style
8 Cantorial Style - Prayer for the Day of Yom Kipper (Turko-Sephardic Version)
9 North African Traditional Style - Guelbi Quaalach Halek
10 Kurdish Mid-Eastern Style - Love Song
11 Korean Classical Style - Right Music (Male Solo)
12 Thai Operatic Style (Female Solo)
13 Albanian Moslem Style
14 Greek Popular Style - Apanu Pal to Nero
15 Chinese Opera Style
16 Pakistani Classical Style - Darbari
17 Swiss Yodel - Song of the Senn
18 Ethiopian Style
19 Early German Opera Style
This collection showcases diverse singing styles, classical and popular, from around the world. Compare and contrast them: Italian opera, African-American blues, a Kurdish love song, a Jewish prayer, a North African traditional song, Chinese opera, Swiss yodeling, and even the crooning style of Bing Crosby! Liner notes include an introductory essay and track notes by Henry Cowell.
