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While i was playing Twilight Princess one night, i came to a segment in the game where i have to howl at the correct order of pitch. And then, when that was done, i was taken into a scene 50 seconds into this video:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z_N7vFu_xWk

Aaaah, doesn't that sound nice?

So if Link and his ghostly partner can do it, i wonder if a werewolf "choir" group can also do the same?

Let me start off by saying that you have a great taste in games. ^.^
(also, in my opinion, that's one of the better howl stone songs in that game)

Yes, it does sound very very nice, and brings back nice memories of playing Majoras Mask.

I suppose that if a group of wolves was trained to howl in harmony, it could sound nice... I can imagine it being somewhat difficult though. Once perfection is achieved, you've got yourself something really nice to listen to :3

In school choir, we sometimes did little 'voice-exercises', where we picked a single syllable, and then sang some simple little tune using that one syllable instead of the actual lyrics. ('Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' was one of the favorites)

We even tried it with howling once or twice. Now that was awesome, even though I couldn't quite work up the guts to ask doing it more often.

But, howl-singing, yes. I imagine it works best with relatively slow, maybe slightly melancholic music.

... Oh gods, I was just struck by a mental image of a group of werewolves howling to 'Mo Ghile Mear'. *dreamy sigh*

The problem is, of course, that wolves actively avoid signing in harmony, in order to give an appearance of large numbers.

But this reminds me that in one book by Tanya Huff, the werewolves were portrayed as big fans of opera

Horrible as the comparison might be, think Barbershop Quartet singing; where the chord is the note, not the individual tone. Close harmony of that sort can convey a great deal of emotive information.
Werewolves might do the same thing to communicate with other Were-packs, all unknown to the humans listening below.

Still, if I heard an alleged wolf pack start howling "Sweet Adeline"...I dunnno if I'd run-or try to find them...

Personally i'd like to hear them do the a capella in something other than opera pieces, like folk music, gregorian/anasheed, some genres of metal, electro/industrial, etc. It's kinda tough picturing a werewolf a cappella group do actual opera, but this is because i dismiss a lot of opera pieces for being too "grand".

The song was nice it does bring back old memories
The Tanya Huff books the werewolf liked it because i think howling is their way
of communication to each other so thats probably be why they like opera.

Well, regular wolves wouldn't do it because it would cover their individual voices. Somebody with a synthesizer could probably recreate the affect though.

As for werewolves, I'm sure they could think of some creative use for it. You know, like a group could howl Yesterday to announce a meeting of representatives or Hard to Say Goodbye to cancel it, maybe throw in a few other melodies for warnings and other such announcements. They probably wouldn't use such well-known melodies, but you get the idea. The point is that only a werewolf would immediately recognize the melody, and just like the rubber duck on the windowsill, only a werewolf would know the significance of it.

I guess one could argue that werewolves may have beautiful voices.

I would want to here a howl in the form of music. Beautiful music to my ears . . . just like Mozart and Glen Miller . . . and the Bee Gees and Linkin Park . . .

MrDragon811 wrote:I would want to here a howl in the form of music. Beautiful music to my ears . . . just like Mozart and Glen Miller . . . and the Bee Gees and Linkin Park . . .

The thought of werewolves howling with a very high pitch came to mind.

Amen to that . . .

P.S. The ones I listed are my top favorite music, but nothing beats a good natural howl . . .

Well, I improved my howling when I took throat-singing lessons. It sounds odd but a wolf's howl, the human chant OM and lion roaring aren't as different as you'd think. They're all done in the throat. The main difference is one of pitch.

Wolf and human larynxes are structurally identical.

Ahh, Vrikatsma-it isn't the larynx, it's the palate that keeps them down. They have a low palate, ours is high. We talk, they howl...

There are music CD's that have wolf songs as part of the music: I'm listening to one right now...Try the International Wolf Center if anyone is interested.

I've long thought that Werewolves would sing differently from their "cousins"...as a sort of indication that "We're here..."