How can they sing if changing a tone might change the meaning of a word? Doesn’t the “tonal direction” upward/downward of a word affect a melody?
How do those systems combine?
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Ok let me take this… my In laws are Chinese and sing ALOT ALOT ALOT OF CHINESE karaoke…my ears are bleeding after 30 seconds.
It just sounds awful.
Ok let me take this… my In laws are Chinese and sing ALOT ALOT ALOT OF CHINESE karaoke…my ears are bleeding after 30 seconds.
It just sounds awful.
To add to the other answers, English is also pickier than most people realize when it comes to your pitch. [It’s not tonal within words, but it usually is within sentences](https://englishwithkim.com/pitch-tone-stress-intonation-english/). When the melody does not mesh with the expected sentence pitch shape, it will sound strange to native English speakers, and is often taken as a sign of a songwriter who is either non-native or a poor writer.
So even in English, the pitch must be accounted for in the writing–this is not necessarily unique to tonal languages.
To add to the other answers, English is also pickier than most people realize when it comes to your pitch. [It’s not tonal within words, but it usually is within sentences](https://englishwithkim.com/pitch-tone-stress-intonation-english/). When the melody does not mesh with the expected sentence pitch shape, it will sound strange to native English speakers, and is often taken as a sign of a songwriter who is either non-native or a poor writer.
So even in English, the pitch must be accounted for in the writing–this is not necessarily unique to tonal languages.
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