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Ms. Berar:<\/strong>\u00a0 “Knock Knock…”<\/p>\n Student:\u00a0<\/strong> “Who’s there?”<\/p>\n Ms. Berar:\u00a0<\/strong> “A little, old lady…”<\/p>\n Student:<\/strong>\u00a0 “A LITTLE, OLD LADY WHO??”<\/p>\n Ms. Berar:\u00a0<\/strong> “Oh WOW!!!\u00a0 I didn’t know that you knew how to Yodel !?!?”<\/p>\n That’s AWESOME!!!<\/p>\n When saying this line, try singing it and it will sound like you are yodeling:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 “A little, old lady who?”\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Here is one of my favourite scenes from my favourite movie of all time,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0“The Sound of Music<\/strong>,” filmed in 1965.\u00a0 Based on the real-life story of the vonTrapp family who fled their homeland in Austria from the Nazis during World War II.<\/p>\n The film is based on the Broadway Play written and composed by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.\u00a0 In this video, the VonTrapp children, along with their governess (nanny), are performing “The Lonely Goatherd” using marionette puppets and singing.<\/p>\n Yodeling is a form of singing which involves repeated and rapid changes of pitch between the low-pitch (chest register or “chest voice”) and the high-pitch (head register or “head voice” aka “falsetto”).\u00a0 This vocal technique originates from the Austro-Bavarian word “jodeln,” meaning “to utter the syllable jo” (pronounced “yo” in English).\u00a0 This vocal technique is used when singing in many cultures worldwide.<\/p>\n