I believe it was Joel [Coen] who said he'd been listening to yodeling while he was cutting the film. The actual melody there is an old cowboy tune called 'Way Out There'. We found it on a Pete Seeger recording, and he credits it to the Sons of the Pioneers, and they credit it as 'traditional', meaning we don't really know who first yodeled that melody.
Of course in New York it took a little time to find a yodeler, not to mention the right yodeler. But I suppose the other important thing about the piece was the decision to keep it as simple as it is. There really is no instrumentation beyond the yodeler (sometimes whistling or humming) and banjo. In other parts of the score we have guitar, percussion and synths, but it was important that the score was generally very intimate - all the rough edges show.
bonus Zona yoddeling tack: 'Return To The Nursery' [d]
many spanks to Time Wendenkos for pointing this travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham out to us
