anyone who's a fan of the sound of music will remember julie andrews yodeling her heart out in the song the lonely goat heard long before the advent of smartphones cow and goat herds used the outs as a way to call from one mountain to another but what began as a melodic language in switzerland and austria has involved into a sophisticated musical form in itself one that has staying power. ok it could be but be totally meaningless and lally will. probably be the we don't know when the 1st alpine dairy farmer let rip with the 1st . perhaps the most plausible explanation courting the scattered herd of cows in for milking but with so much artistic creativity be invested into such a monday toss. you can go oh you're on her 2. rather hard to imagine now but there was a time when yodeling was considered revolutionary. you could even say there was a kind of republican yodel for example in switzerland one of the 1st democratic countries or roll of the wars to free it from the podium at the beginning of the 19th century. these countries were associated with freedom in the eyes of the rest of euro