Music of Tuva - Theory and Instruction

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Music of Tuva
Theory and Instruction

Scientific American on throat singing: A great article on the "fundamentals" of throat singing, by Ted Levin and Michael Edgerton.


What is throat singing?: Here's an explanation of throat singing, taken from the liner notes from the Melodii Tuvi album.
Learning to sing overtones: Steve Sklar's kh��mei page has singing instruction, spectral analyses of singing, and more.
Tran Quang Hai: Tran Quang Hai's WWW site contains many articles on overtones, his video film The Song of Harmonics , and other videos .

His DVD Le Chant Diphonique on overtone singing was made with the participation of the Tuvan group Huun Huur Tu and was released in September of 2004

Brian Grover's Crash Course in Khoomei

A collection of recordings from late 2003 that provide a very quick, yet complete, course of instruction to get started down the road to throat singing in the Tuvan style!

Throat-singing instructions: Michael Emory's throat-singing instructions are available here.
An article on throat singing, written in Latin.: By Sami Jansson, Finnish overtone singer and Tuva fan. The same article is also available in English.
Sami's WWW site has numerous links to interesting items related to Tuva, Mongolia, singing, etc.

Transcript for a Two New Hours episode on throat singing: Courtesy of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Washington Post articles on throat singing

Music of Tuva Theory and Instruction

Music of Tuva
Theory and Instruction