The "Art Music" thread - from Troubadours to contemporary, including "regional"

[Mouzafphaerre]

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No offence taken indeed!

It's as close a representation of the traditional style of singing as my talent allows. It's about the style. A "smooth" voice would ruin it for that purpose.
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[Mouzafphaerre]

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Persian classical dastgah Shur performed by Lloyd Miller on oud with Azar Hashemi on santur on National Iranian TV in the 1970s.
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Josef Christof & Steffen Schleiermacher playing Charles Ives' Three Page Sonata
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[Vuk]

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No offence taken indeed!

It's as close a representation of the traditional style of singing as my talent allows. It's about the style. A "smooth" voice would ruin it for that purpose.
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Yeah, I know that it is traditional, I just don't understand really why it is done like that traditionally. It may just be that I am not used to it, but to me it makes the voice sound weak, like it is faltering, even when it is not.
It is the same thing with a lot of Romanian folk music I have heard (this may be due to the Ottoman influence, but I am not 100% sure), like this one:

She is a pretty girl, nice voice, but what she does with it just seems to ruin it IMO. I mean, it must be very hard to do (possibly harder than singing without doing it, of that I am not sure as I know almost nothing about singing :P), so why go through all the effort to deliberately do that with your voice? Do you have any idea why they sung songs in that style?