There is a kind of music that has high (like soprano) vocals and no lyric
but I don't know what it is called. The voice uses the vowels ah, auw, and uh.
Some things like it are:
1.The intro and outro to original Star Trek series
2.The intro to old Underdog cartoon, but only in the background vocals
3.In Shrek, when the troll princess singing, a bird exploded, after that Shrek
fried the eggs.
4.In Dark Crystal, when Gelflings sang and played pan flute on a boat.
5.In AVATAR there was some background music like that.
6.Andreas Vollenweider in White Winds album
I used to use the phrase Siren Song to describe this kind of music
and maybe it is sometimes used as background in movie scenes
of paradise (or even sung then), or in scenes of sad desolation and ruin
with a slightly more somber but not much different sounding voice.
I imagine that the Odyssey sirens sing that way, or mermaids,
whale songs may have a vague resemblance. Also, the f shapes
on a violin remind me of how this kind of music is usually sung,
vaguely like American fire truck sirens, high to higher, then higher to high,
with the vowels uh-ah, ah-uh, uh-ah, ah-uh, and with less loudness
in between each / \ / \ glide.
I just remembered I heard a man sing this way on a TV show, as part
of a song in a band, which I will try to search for. He sung it almost
perfectly except that it wasn't in soprano and didn't sound feminine
as it usually does. The list of songs above sound much closer to
the KIND OF MUSIC I am searching for the name of.
Also, ...
Maybe the Snoods in Doctor Who sound that way too.
The song "Torn" has something similar but with instruments near the end.
Everything Beautiful is Far Away by Granddaddy sounds close to what I mean,
where the voice is singing ah-ah-ah---ah-ah.
That's all I can remember that sounds that way.
If you hear what I am talking about, I know everyone feels different
about music, its not a universal language, but the music I am describing
induces longing for me, and for that reason it is appropriate for
Everything Beautiful Far Away even though thats not a prime example
of the exact style, which I am not finding while searching because of
not knowing exactly what it is. I'd say ambient but I'm not finding it there.
Maybe Celtic? It doesn't seem to be concentrated anywhere.
Enya may have sung a few songs like that, but I'm not sure.
In general, the sound is "mystical"
and seems prototypical/archetypical to me.
Any Ideas?
If not, I think I may have to synth a prime example of it (for) myself.
Deep Forest Lullaby is also similar as much as 'everything beautiful' is.