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  Scat singing Information
Scat singing is vocalizing either wordlessly or with nonsense words and syllables as employed by jazz singers who create the equivalent of an instrumental solo using only the voice.
While the use of nonsense syllables in singing long predates scat, scat singing is distinguished by the fact that rather than using the sounds to exactly reproduce the melodic line, improvisations are made with the melody and rhythm, much as in other jazz improvisations.
One early master of ragtime scat singing was Gene Greene who recorded scat choruses in his song "King of the Bungaloos" and several other songs from 1911 to 1917.
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While the use of nonsense syllables in singing long predates scat, scat singing is distinguished by the fact that rather than using the sounds to exactly reproduce the melodic line, improvisations are made with the melody and rhythm, much as in other jazz improvisation.
One early master of ragtime scat singing was Gene Greene who recorded scat choruses in his song "King of the Bungaloos" several times from 1909 on.
A frequently repeated legend alleges that Louis Armstrong invented scat singing on the spot when he dropped the lyric sheet while singing on his recording of "Heebie Jeebies" in 1926; the story is false and Armstrong himself made no such claim.
www.casimiro.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/s/sc/scat_singing.html   (507 words)

  
 Scat Singing Encyclopedia Information @ Karr.net (Karr Network)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
While the use of nonsense syllables in singing long predates scat, scat singing is distinguished by the fact that rather than using the sounds to exactly reproduce the melodic line, improvisations are made with the melody and rhythm, much as in other jazz improvisations.
Before the national spread of jazz in the United States, a type of scat singing was already in use by ragtime vocalists.
One early master of ragtime scat singing was Gene Greene who recorded scat choruses in his song "King of the Bungaloos" and several others between 1911 and 1917.
209.68.55.246 /encyclopedia/Scat_singing   (1181 words)

  
 Scat - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Scat, vocal jazz improvisation in which wordless syllables are used.
Originally, scat was done in imitation of jazz instrumental solos.
Armstrong was a dazzling improviser, technically, emotionally, and intellectually.
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 Scat Singing
Scat singing is a style of jazz singing without real words, where the human voice is made to sound like a musical instrument.
This singing style evolved as the general jazz scene developed, and singers suited their styles to the music of their times.
In the 1960s, the Swingle Singers, a Parisian ensemble of eight, elevated scatting to the classical concert stage with popular scat arrangements of familiar classical themes.
www.jazz-music-made-easy.com /scat-singing.html   (216 words)

  
 Scat singing
It is more probable that scat singing was an outgrowth of jazz singers in the United States imitating the sounds of jazz instruments.
Louis Armstrong took scat singing to new heights in the 1920's and many of his early scat solos were as innovative as his trumpet solos.
Scat singers are like any jazz musician and each creates a unique sound that consists of syllables, rhythm patterns and other vocal devices.
www.music.vt.edu /musicdictionary/textS/Scatsinging.html   (247 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice.
Most singing involves shaping the mouth to form words, but types of mouth music which use open sounds or nonsense syllables ("vocables") also exist, for instance scat singing or yodeling.
Singing is often done in a group, such as a choir, and may be accompanied by musical instruments, a full orchestra, or a band.
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 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Scat singing   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Scat singing is vocalizing either wordlessly or with nonsense words and syllables as employed by jazz singers[?] who create the equivalent of an instrumental solo using only the voice.
In one famous example, Armstrong scatted on "I'm A Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas" where he shouts out "I done forgot the words" in the middle of recording before taking off in scat.
Scat singing influenced the development of doo-wop and rap and hip-hop styles.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/sc/Scat_singing   (498 words)

  
 Scat
Scat is most closely associated by the general public with Ella Fitzgerald and her many imitators.
With her recording of "Flying Home" (thought to be her first scat based song, released in 1947) she introduced variations of scat which showcased a segment of songs made famous by other performers.
Today scat has scaled new heights of virtuosity with such performers as Bobby McFerrin, who was even able to put a few scat songs on the Top 40 Charts during the late 1980s and early 90s.
meltingpot.fortunecity.com /zaire/721/history/scat.htm   (464 words)

  
 SCAT - Mobility Grants
("Scat" is also a form of jazz singing; legend says it was made popular by Louis Armstrong, who dropped his lyrics sheet in the studio and went right on singing with wordless vocalizing.
To be eligible for one of the SCAT grants to go to Europe, you must be a post-graduate student or a post-doctoral fellow in one of the Latin American network partners.
The SCAT project will offer four grants for European post-graduate students or post-doctoral fellows to spend a period of study and research at one of the Latin American partners.
www.scat.bristol.ac.uk /mobility_grants/faqs   (1825 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features
Scat singing has been defined as vocal improvisation, using nonsense syllables instead of words (e.g., "doo-bee-doo-ba-doot-'m-do-ba").
Scat singing is distinguished by the improvisations made with a song's melody and rhythm, much like jazz players.
Scat singing is said to have even influenced the development of doo-wop and rap music.
www.starbulletin.com /2004/03/26/features/story1.html   (660 words)

  
 Artsology: Lil' Groove and Jazz Scat Singing
Jazz "scat" singing uses nonsense words and syllables, often sung to an improvised, or made-up melody.
Some jazz scat singers use this style to create their own musical solo without using an instrument.
An early pioneer of scat singing was Louis Armstrong, and a current practitioner of this style is Bobby McFerrin.
www.artsology.com /explainingscat.php   (176 words)

  
 Digital synthesis of singing (scat-singing)
As a legend claims, Louis Armstrong dropped the lyric sheet on the floor during a recording session of "Heebie Jeebies", and so he had to improvise the words.
Here we present you some new Satchmo-songs, which Louis Armstrong was never singing in life-time, or anyway not singing in that way as you find them here.
His voice was synthesized by a program for computer aided synthesis of scat-singing, that we have developed.The notes for the singing voice were transfered to the computer by midi.
www.energietechnik.fh-dortmund.de /personen/kudszus/fue/kudszus/english/html/scatsing.html   (160 words)

  
 Ward Swingle - vocal jazz arranger
In Paris in the sixties he was a founding member of the fabled Double Six of Paris,then took the scat singing idea and applied it to the works of Bach, hence The Swingle Singers, whose early recordings won five Grammies.
In Paris in the sixties he was a founding member of the fabled Double Six of Paris, then took to the scat singing idea and applied it to the works of Bach, hence The Swingle Singers ("The Mod Squad of Baroque Music"), whose early recordings won five Grammies.
The challenge in singing without a rhythm section is to make the piece swing without the help of the instruments.The "Bourree" has probably been the most widely performed of all Ward Swingle arrangements.
www.singers.com /arrangers/wardswingle.html   (1648 words)

  
 Scat singing   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Scat singing is vocalizing either wordlessly or with nonsense words and syllables as employed by jazz singers who create the equivalent ofan instrumental solo using only the voice.
While the use of nonsense syllables in singing long predates scat, scat singing is distinguished by the fact that rather thanusing the sounds to exactly reproduce the melodic line, improvisations are made with the melody and rhythm, much as in other jazz improvisation.
Ragtime pioneer BenHarney and New Orleans pianist Tony Jackson were said to be scat singing in the early years of the 20th century.
www.therfcc.org /scat-singing-136868.html   (457 words)

  
 Scat has several different meanings Scat singing Scat...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Scat singing Scat singing is a vocal technique common in jazz jazz.
Scat is also used as a term for animal feces feces and for the sexual fetish of coprophilia coprophilia.
Scats are fish fish found in fresh, brackish and saltwater.
www.biodatabase.de /scat   (173 words)

  
 SCAT Singing: Handling Unusual Call Numbers with the III SCAT table mechanism
In her presentation, she laid out all the information for you: what the SCAT table is for, and how it should be set up for use with Library of Congress and Dewey call numbers, the standard call number systems for which it was designed.
The SCAT table is used to create categories, or groups, or "buckets," as Sandy calls them, into which your call numbers will fall, so that you can generate meaningful statistics based on the call number of an item.
With LC call numbers, a boundary is made using the first set of letters and the first set of numbers, and it is also possible to make a decimal division of that first set of numbers.
www.columbia.edu /~tb21/scattable/scattalk.html   (2845 words)

  
 Scat singing . Voice instrumental music . Ben Harney . Cliff Edwards . Slim Gaillard . Dizzy Gillespie . Scatman John . ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A frequently repeated legend alleges that Louis Armstrong invented scat singing on the spot when he dropped the lyric sheet while singing on his
While Ben Harney unfortunately was neglected by commercial recording studios during his lifetime, in 1925 a folklorist recorded Harney singing an example of an early...
John Paul Larkin 13 March 1942 - 3 December 1999, more commonly known as "Scatman John", was a pop musician and singer who used scat singing together with jazz and techno pop.
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The Scat is a large, circular fish with a compressed body.
SCAT is the oldest public access television station in Massachusetts and winner of the National Alliance for Community Media Award for Overall Excellence.
This vessel is the result and the conclusion of prolonged and extensive testing of it's prerunner the foiler EIFO built at Multihull Technologies, Inc. in Key West, Florida.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Scat singing, an improvisational vocal technique in jazz, in which nonsensical syllables or words are sung, often as part of a call-and-response interaction with other musicians; see also Ska for Jamaican voice music
Scat, an American card game of draw & discard, not to be confused with Skat, a card game of German origin.
"Scat sex" is a common slang term for coprophilia, a sexual fetish involving feces.
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As a SCAT intern, students will create programming either by themselves or as part of a team.
The SCAT measures specific abilities in the verbal and quantitative areas.
Because its focus is on aptitude, the SCAT should not be used in isolation to make decisions about specific educational objectives.
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 The Mavens' Word of the Day   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A friend of mine with a rodent problem was told by the exterminator that the beasts' scat led him to believe her problem was bats.
None of which has anything to do with Ella Fitzgerald's "scat singing," a vocal style that uses onomatopoeic and nonsense syllables instead of words, sometimes using the voice to imitate a musical instrument or instrumental phrasing.
Scat syllables are actually transcribed on sheet music, written under the notes as lyrics would be-here's part of Fitzgerald's rendition of "Flying Home": rri-ti-u t'li t'la d'li bah!
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 Scat singing
One early master of ragtime scat singing was Gene Greene who recorded scat choruses in his song "King of the Bungaloos" several other songs from 1911 to 1917.
Armstrong was an innovative singer who experimented with all kinds of sound, and improvised with his voice as he did on his instrument.
According to Dick Higgins, "In Black American music there is a sound poetry tradition, possibly based originally on work calls, which we find into the scat singing of the popular music of the 1930s, in the long nonsense-like passages in Cab Calloway's singing of 'Minnie the Moocher', for example".
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 Scat singing   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Scat singing is vocalizing either wordlessly or with nonsense words and syllables as employed by jazz singer s who create the equivalent of an instrumental solo using only the voice.
According to Dick Higgins, "In Black American music there is a sound poetry tradition, possibly based originally on work calls, which we find [transformed] into the scat singing of the popular music of the 1930s, in the long nonsense-like passages in Cab Calloway 's singing of 'Minnie the Moocher', for example."
Leo Watson Scat singing influenced the development of doo-wop and rap and hip-hop styles.
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