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  • noun In music, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a general term for the various methods of naming the tones of the scale (for convenience of reference and accuracy of singing) by syllables. See solmization, bebization, bocedization, damenization, labecedization.

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  • An obsolete Flemish system of recording musical notes with syllables.

    November 2, 2007

  • or systematically naming all men 'Bob'

    November 2, 2007

  • Which my brother probably believes should happen.

    November 2, 2007