Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-06-20 00:24
Chris P wrote:
> People that use the tonic Sol-Fa system (eg. some singers that
> can't read music) can use any note as Do,
Well, but here we go into the whole fixed vs moveable do issue, which is a rabbit hole fuzzy may not have wanted to go down into. Much of the historical writing about music that I read in European sources refers to notes by sol-fa names with "C" being the "fixed" location of "do." Curtis Institute here in Philadelphia teaches its students to sight-sing using "fixed do" syllables (do=C) and many of the conductors I play for sing passages they want to demonstrate with fixed do syllables. So the sol-fa syllables aren't the domain of the musically illiterate. Maybe I misunderstood what you were trying to say.
The moveable do is the darling of Kodaly teachers and, maybe, other pedagogical approaches as well. And my college sight-singing teachers used it as way to analyze the harmonic function of the notes in tonal music.
> but as C Major is the
> basic scale involving no accidentals, it's the natural choice.
>
Right, but then why does the piano keyboard begin three half-steps below the C Major scale? I think it's a curious thing that the keyboard doesn't start with the first note of the natural (white key) major scale, which was called do long before it was called C. If what we call C had been the first note on the keyboard, we probably would call it A and go up alphabetically from there.
I'm curious, as a tangent, about whether contemporary European musicians (musically literate ones) use letter names or sol-fa names to identify the notes of a scale. Sorry, fuzzy, if I seem to have hijacked your thread
Karl
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