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n. The vocal imitation of instrumental music.
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Mouth music may refer to:
- Puirt a beul, a Scottish traditional music style
- Mouth Music (band), a band who sings in that style
Mouth Music is a Scottish-inspired musical project founded in 1988, whose combination of traditional Gaelic songs and music with contemporary instrumental and technological settings led them to international fame in the early 1990s.
Mouth Music has featured a variety of musicians over the years, with songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Martin Swan as the only consistent member (and de facto leader). Other musicians who have passed through the project include singers Talitha MacKenzie, Jackie Joyce (aka Helicopter Girl), Martin Furey, Mairi McInnes, Ishbel MacAskill and Michaela Rowan, plus fiddler Alison Crawford, Capercaillie/ Shooglenifty drummer James Mackintosh, and pipe/flute/fiddle player Martyn Bennett.
Swan has commented "I've never seen Mouth Music as a group. It's always been me with different people joining to play live."
The name "Mouth Music" is an English translation of the Gaelic term puirt a beul - the vocalisation of instrumental music.
Usage examples of "mouth music".
They began to chant a Plainfolk melody using a style of singing known as mouth music, full of complex counter-harmonies in which the voices were the instruments.
Lioren wondered if the entity was in pain from illness or wounds, or was perhaps indulging in its version of mouth music.