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  2. List of Schoolhouse Rock! episodes - Wikipedia

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    This song teaches about interjections through three stories: an ill child reacting to a shot of medication, a woman rejecting a suitor's advances, and a group of irate fans shouting non-obscene words in response to an interception at a football game. The song's chorus quotes the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah. Producer Tom Yohe's ...

  3. Non-lexical vocables in music - Wikipedia

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    Folderol, a nonsense refrain in songs, is used in genres as diverse as Christmas songs ("Deck the Halls") and naval songs like "Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate". The European pop genre yé-yé was named after the frequent use of English-derived "Yeah!" as filler. Spanish yeyé signer Massiel won the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest with La, la, la.

  4. Talk:The ABC Song - Wikipedia

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    Stop using fancy words you don't know. Letter names predate the song and of course, it's not comfortable to consonants without vowels and English vowel names not "particular", they are just what are historically as long vowels. --188.99.140.78 16:33, 21 February 2017 (UTC) Agreed.

  5. Swingin' the Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    "Swingin' the Alphabet" is a novelty song sung by the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard) in their 1938 short film Violent Is the Word for Curly. It is the only full-length song performed by the trio in their short films, and the only time they mimed to their own pre-recorded soundtrack.

  6. An African Song or Chant from Barbados - Wikipedia

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    The melody is written in a minor key ("suppose E with minor 3 d") and differs significantly from later examples of music from Barbados, most of which are in major keys. [2] A lead singer alternates with the rest of the work gang in a call and response pattern, a feature shared by work songs in the United States into the early 20th century. [9]

  7. Rhyme - Wikipedia

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    Words ending in a stressed vowel (e.g., вода́) can only rhyme with other words which share the consonant preceding the vowel (e.g., когда́). Words ending in a stressed vowel preceded by another vowel, as well as words ending in a stressed vowel preceded by /j/, can all be rhymed with each other: моя́, тая́ and чья all rhyme.

  8. IPA vowel chart with audio - Wikipedia

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    This chart provides audio examples for phonetic vowel symbols. The symbols shown include those in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and added material. The chart is based on the official IPA vowel chart. [1] The International Phonetic Alphabet is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet.

  9. Vowel - Wikipedia

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    There are two complementary definitions of vowel, one phonetic and the other phonological.. In the phonetic definition, a vowel is a sound, such as the English "ah" / ɑː / or "oh" / oʊ /, produced with an open vocal tract; it is median (the air escapes along the middle of the tongue), oral (at least some of the airflow must escape through the mouth), frictionless and continuant. [4]