Author: Ginny
Date: 1999-07-01 15:41
Hiroshi - I have learned fixed do (C is always do), moveable do (the tonic of the key is do, fa sharp is fee etc.), English style letters (why isn't C called A, since it's first Huh? cause they used minor back in those days?) and I teach number solfege to little kids, moveable. I am an American. For number solfege the first note of the scale is 1 etc. It conveys all the chord structure (1,3,5 is the one chord), it tells intervals(1 - 5 is a fifth), it just doesn't sing bel canto as some of the English numbers are not formed with beautiful Italian vowels. I also expect them to know the letter names, so they can talk with the world. It seems so much simpler to me, I am stunned that either letter or solfege sylables are still in use. I have found they kids really understand pitch notation, that it is intuitive to them. Theory and analysis are much simplified.
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