!!!Jodler

Yodelling song (German: Jodler), a sung passage without text which 
changes register between chest notes and falsetto. The yodelling song 
is sung to syllables made up of vowels and consonants ("hol-la-di-o, 
dul-ye, dye-ho-ri-ridl, di-ri-di-ri-a-ha") and is remarkable for its 
wide melodic range and the rapidity of vocal leaps between low chest 
notes and high falsetto. It is usually sung by several voices, either 
by itself or as a repeated refrain or closing chorus in folk songs. 
The yodelling song is most common in Styria and in Tirol; it is less 
common in Carinthia. Also known as "Wullaza" (also "Hullaza") in 
Styria, as "Almer" in Upper Austria, and as "Dudler" in Lower Austria.

!Literature
W. Wiora, Zur Fruehgeschichte der Musik in den 
Alpenlaendern, 1949; W. Deutsch, Der Jodler in Oesterreich, in: 
Handbuch des Volksliedes, 1974; C. Luchner-Loescher, Der Jodler, 1982; 
H. Haertel and L. Waltner, Im Ochsenhimmelreich, 1994 (documentary by 
OeWF).


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