Cow- and goatherds used yodeling as a way to call across from one mountain to another. It was a rudimentary albeit beautiful way to communicate. Certain sounds and notes actually meant words, so in a way, yodeling began as a kind of melodic language of the mountains. I like to think how long before two teenagers picked up their phones and started texting one another, one would stand tall on a rock on some mountainside and yodel some little phrase across the valley to the other, who would yodel back.
The mountain village of Zermatt is extremely remote. Today, yodeling has survived through music, in Alpine choirs and even American country songs. My dad had it, and I have it, too. The news is a small punch of personal devastation for me. Maybe I have never dreamed of becoming a great yodeler, but walking the Alps makes me want to yodel. The short vowels are sung in the chest, and the long notes are in the falsetto.
Like any improvised art form e. There are yodeling teams and festivals all around Switzerland. Should you want to catch some yodeling while visiting Switzerland, you can always check in with the Swiss Yodeling Association. No, my first yodeling was improvised in the Alps of Zermatt by a true-blue Swiss cowherd.
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