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- noun Alternative spelling of
solfège .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun singing using solfa syllables to denote the notes of the scale of C major
- noun a voice exercise; singing scales or runs to the same syllable
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Examples
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I really can't hold a tune and I don't know solfege at all - so that I found ways of writing music to produce sounds that I haven't heard, and that other people haven't heard.
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If I'd study solfege, if I had a feeling for harmony, which I don't, I think I would simply write what people have already heard or what I would've thought - thought I heard.
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They taught everyone to sing a cappella, four-part music, using solfege - reading notes with the set of syllables do, re, mi fa, sol, la and ti, each representing a different tone on a scale.
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Miller explained that Joe had his third-grade class memorize the notes of one song using solfege.
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The song is based on the solfege syllables, “do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti” for the notes in the major scale.
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In one of the larger rooms there is a solfege class (singing practice, using scales), or one of composer Ramón Montes de Oca´s wonderful lectures on Chopin, or Webern, or Renaissance music.
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In one of the larger rooms there is a solfege class (singing practice, using scales), or one of composer Ramón Montes de Oca´s wonderful lectures on Chopin, or Webern, or Renaissance music.
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Male and female campers spent time on solfege, a sight-reading method that pairs a hand sign or number to each note of the musical scale - the syllables are the "do, re, mi" made famous in the musical
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I can't remember, home of the guy who invented solfege.
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I can't sing solfege, not a fan, so this town was kind of blah for me.
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