{"id":237,"date":"2006-12-01T18:52:03","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T17:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/01\/tone-singing\/"},"modified":"2006-12-01T18:52:03","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T17:52:03","slug":"tone-singing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Singing in tonal languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When people sing in Mandarin, they usually don&#8217;t stick to the tones, but in Cantonese I understand that singers try to incorporate the tones into the tune. According to an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/journeytothai.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/trouble-with-barney.html\">blog<\/a> I came across today, the tones are discarded in Thai when singing.<\/p>\n<p>Does anybody know what happens to tones in other languages when they&#8217;re sung?<\/p>\n<p>If any of you are able to sing in a tonal language, don&#8217;t be shy! It would interesting to hear a recording.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people sing in Mandarin, they usually don&#8217;t stick to the tones, but in Cantonese I understand that singers try to incorporate the tones into the tune. According to an interesting blog I came across today, the tones are discarded in Thai when singing. Does anybody know what happens to tones in other languages when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}