Editing Inuit throat singing (section)

== Performance ==
Two women face each other usually in a standing position and holding each other's arms. Sometimes they will do some kind of dance movements while singing (e.g., balancing from right to left). One singer leads by setting a short [[rhythm|rhythmic pattern]], which she repeats leaving brief silent intervals between each repetition. The other singer fills in the gap with another rhythmic pattern. The sounds used include voiced sounds as well as unvoiced ones, both through [[inhalation]] or [[exhalation]].<ref name="secondthoughts">First Nations?.. Second Thoughts by Thomas Flanagan (2008) – 2nd ed. ({{ISBN|0773534431}})</ref> The first to run out of breath or be unable to maintain the pace of the other singer will start to laugh or simply stop and will thus be eliminated from the game. It generally lasts between one and three minutes. The winner is the singer who beats the largest number of people.<ref name="musicincanada">Music in Canada, capturing landscape and diversity by Elaine Keillor. Montreal [[McGill-Queen's University Press]]. (1939) ({{ISBN|0773531777}})</ref><ref name="CBC"/><ref name="Inuit"/>

At one time, the lips of the two women almost touched, so that one singer used the mouth cavity of the other as a [[resonator]], but this is less common in present day. Often, the singing is accompanied by a [[Swung note|shuffling]] in rhythm from one foot to the other. The sounds may be actual words or nonsense syllables or created during exhalation.<ref name="Inuit"/>
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The old woman who teaches the children [throat singing songs] corrects sloppy intonation of contours, poorly meshed phase displacements, and vague rhythms exactly like a Western vocal coach.<ref>{{citation|last=Nattiez, Jean-Jacques|author-link=Jean-Jacques Nattiez|orig-year=1987|year=1990 |title=Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music |pages=57 |location=Princeton, N.J. |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-09136-5}}</ref><ref>{{citation |last=Nattiez |first=Jean-Jacques |title=Musicologie générale et sémiologue |year=1987 |work=Translated by Carolyn Abbate, 1990 |isbn=978-0-691-02714-2 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, N.J.}}</ref>
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