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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: beetsnotbeats on July 08, 2005, 07:45:00 pm

Title: tra la la bim bom
Post by: beetsnotbeats on July 08, 2005, 07:45:00 pm

An interesting question popped up on a musicology listserve:
 
 Is there a word that means/describes sung nonsense syllables like "tra la la" or (in the case of Jewish folk song) "bim bom"? I'm looking for  some way to refer them as a group other than just as "the nonsense  syllables."

Title: Re: tra la la bim bom
Post by: thirsty moore on July 08, 2005, 08:06:00 pm

I thought it was referred to as sing-song.
 
 There's a Jobim song called Bim Bom.