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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Solfeggio.
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- noun a method of sight singing
music that uses the syllablesdo (originallyut ),re ,mi ,fa ,sol (orso ),la , andsi (orti ) to represent the pitches of thescale , most commonly themajor scale . The fixed-do system uses do forC , and the moveable-do system uses do for whateverkey the melody uses (thus B is do if thepiece is in the key of B). The relative natural minor of a scale may be represented by beginning at la.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, from Italian solfeggio; see solfeggio.]
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From French.
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