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English term or phrase:
ascending O's
English answer:
singing a succesion of 'Oh!' on higher and higher notes
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Tony M
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Jul 7, 2017 23:12
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ascending O
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ascending O
and it felt it was like growing up creating something beautiful. There's this part where they do the ascending O's
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Jul 12, 2017 05:11: Tony M Created KOG entry
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singing a succesion of 'Oh!' on higher and higher notes
As I've already previously explained to you!
It's not uncommon in popular music to repeat an often meaningless sound, frequently at the end of a line (sometimes just for scansion!), and sometimes with a rising or falling cadence. Think the Beatles "She loves me, yeah, yeah, yeah" or Righteous Brothers "You've lost that lovin' feelin', whoa, whoa, whoa..." — I can't offhand think of an example with a rising cadence, though it's probably the sort of thing you'd find a lot in gospel music, for example...
It's not uncommon in popular music to repeat an often meaningless sound, frequently at the end of a line (sometimes just for scansion!), and sometimes with a rising or falling cadence. Think the Beatles "She loves me, yeah, yeah, yeah" or Righteous Brothers "You've lost that lovin' feelin', whoa, whoa, whoa..." — I can't offhand think of an example with a rising cadence, though it's probably the sort of thing you'd find a lot in gospel music, for example...
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"Family friends and stuff would come over and they would do like a capella renditions of stuff and I'd like jump in and find the harmony and sing along and it felt it was like growing up creating something beautiful There's this part where they do the ascending O's"
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