Solfeggio

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Music Use of the sol-fa syllables to note the tones of the scale; solmization.
  • n. Music A singing exercise in which the sol-fa syllables are used instead of text.
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  • n. a method of sight singing music that uses the syllables do (originally ut), re, mi, fa, sol (or so), la, and si (or ti) to represent the pitches of the scale, most commonly the major scale. The fixed-do system uses do for C, and the movable-do system uses do for whatever key the melody uses (thus B is do if the piece is in the key of B).
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The system of arranging the scale by the names do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, by which singing is taught; a singing exercise upon these syllables.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In music:
  • n. Same as solmization.
  • n. A vocal exercise consisting of tones variously combined in steps, skips. or running passages, sung either to simple vowels or to arbitrary syllables, and designed to develop the quality, flexibility, and power of the voice.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a voice exercise; singing scales or runs to the same syllable
  • n. singing using solfa syllables to denote the notes of the scale of C major
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    singing    vocalizing   
    Cross Reference
    sol    la    fa    do    re   
    Variant
    solfeggi   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    solmisation    sol-fa    solfège    solfege    solmization   
     
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