Street cries, though rarely heard in North European cities today, testify to the ways in which audible practices give shape and structure to urban space. As paradigmatic for what Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari call ritornelle, the ritualized and stylized practice of street cries may point at the dynamics of space-making, through which the social and territorial construction of urban space is performed. The article draws on a historical material documenting and describing street cries, particularly in Copenhagen round 1929 to 1935. Most notably, the composer Vang Holmboe and the architect Steen Eiler Rasmussen has investigated Danish street cries as respectably a musical and a spatial phenomenon. Such studies – from each their perspectives – can be said to explore the aesthetics of urban environments, since street calls are specifically developed and heard in the context of the city. The present study will outline some of the significant features in the two different projects in order to investigate and reflect upon analytical strategies, when sound studies and studies of auditory culture face generally unnoticed aspects of everyday environments. Today changed sensibilities and technologies have rendered street crying obsolete in Northern Europe, but new urban ritornells may have taken their place.