Klarinet Archive - Posting 000968.txt from 1998/05

From: "Justin Wood" <olio555@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Solfeggio
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 23:31:45 -0400

>> I feel embarrassed, but what is Solfeggio?
>
>You should be _more_ embarrased that you didn't go look it up in a
>dictionary! But since I'm in a good mood, I'll tell you what Webster's
>New World Dictionary says:
>1) voice practice in which scales are sung to the sol-fa syllables;
>solmization
>2) the use of these syllables in singing, esp. in reading a song, etc.
>at sight
>
>And of course, the semi-circular definition of solmization:
>solfeggio, or any similar use of a system of syllables in singing.

DOH! Sometimes I feel really embarrassed. I never think to look up
something like that in the dictionary though...

Now, to see how much more I can embarrass myself, I still don't understand.
You mean literally going, say from C to C singing Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti-Do?
(just for example) I realize you could just as easily go from
F-G-A-Bb-C-D-E-F, right?

I have been doing that with the recommendation from a Klarinetter I chat
with over ICQ. Not with Do-Re-Mi, etc...instead I have been using "La".

Sometimes stuff seems so easy that I can't figure it out...<GRIN>

Maybe I should go take a nap....

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