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Music Theory Introduction

Origins of Solfege

Michael Gilsinan's picture
Wed, 2010-09-22 02:56

Here is a look at the Hymn from which we get our solfege from.  UT is what we would today call "do" or the letter "C".  The others are the same as we use today re, me, fa, sol.  At this time there was no "si" yet.

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I didn't know about this is a

Erik Elyager Ochoa Armenta's picture
Erik Elyager Ocho...
Wed, 2010-09-22 10:32

I didn't know about this is a curious fact.

PD:you missed "la".

la. Thank you, sorry about

Michael Gilsinan's picture
Michael Gilsinan
Thu, 2010-09-23 03:16

la. Thank you, sorry about the typo