Question on a musical/vocal trick.

[jaF0]

I call it a trick because I don't know what else to call it. I'm sure there's a more formal name for it.

Artist: Nightwish (Symphonic Rock Supergroup)
Album: Human Nature
Track: Pan

Midway though, the singer (Floor Jansen) does a rapid hi, lo, hi, lo, hi, lo bit alternating each word hi or lo. Her style is as much operatic as anything else.

I can't recall ever hearing anything like it before, even in what classical music I have.

 

[Leigh81]

I call it a trick because I don't know what else to call it. I'm sure there's a more formal name for it.

Artist: Nightwish (Symphonic Rock Supergroup)
Album: Human Nature
Track: Pan

Midway though, the singer (Floor Jansen) does a rapid hi, lo, hi, lo, hi, lo bit alternating each word hi or lo. Her style is as much operatic as anything else.

I can't recall ever hearing anything like it before, even in what classical music I have.

She's an amazing singer & saw them in Toronto I think in 2015.
I can't picture the part midway through but I like the vocals at the beginning part of that song. No tricks, all talent

 

[jaF0]

Nobody knows?

 

[Modern_drunkard]

I know a stripper who does this when giving me a beej. I will check with her how she pulls it off.

 

[jaF0]

Whatever she's doing ... I like it.

 

[jaF0]

She does it at least three times between 3:25 and 4:15

Lyrics are: " A feast of beautiful tragedy, wonderful fantasy ', alternating the 12 syllables.

 

[Lord Pmann]

Perhaps one would call it “intervals”. Interval training is when singers (or any musician) uses largely separated notes on the scale to train their ears or practice pitch.

In western music, our notes are half and whole step intervals. Most melodic lines flow with only a small number of intervals. She is singing very large intervals, with a staccato style. The notes don’t flow into one another, but are more like discrete jumps.

 

[jaF0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(music)

Over my head.

Noticed something similar in Epica's 'Design Your Universe.'