{"id":7867,"date":"2023-12-27T05:44:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T10:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/?p=7867"},"modified":"2023-12-27T05:44:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T10:44:28","slug":"suffering-solfege-do-re-me-reconsidered-in-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/suffering-solfege-do-re-me-reconsidered-in-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffering Solf\u00e8ge (Do, Re, Me, Reconsidered in Song)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The musical notation we all know from the Sound of Music, Do, Re, Me, Fa, So, La, Te, Do, is called\u00a0 Solf\u00e8ge <\/em>and comes from a system created by a Benedictine Monk in the eleven hundreds in Italy. The names come from “the first syllable of each line in the Latin hymn “Ut queant laxis”, the “Hymn to St. John the Baptist”, but they don’t actually mean anything by themselves.<\/p>\n

They also don’t sound like the notes we use in English. So, here’s a song I wrote to help with that. Thanks to Julie Andrews, You already know the tune. Here’s a question; if Ms. Andrews had sung it in Mary Poppins, would she have used Latin syllables?<\/p>\n

Suffering Solf\u00e8ge<\/h1>\n

Do Re Me is how you learn the notes
\nin many foreign lands,
\nBut for me and many folks
\nit’s somewhat hard to understand.
\nSo I made up this little tune
\nFor those who wish upon the moon,
\nfor some way to learn their notes,
\nthat just makes sense to us.<\/p>\n

C, a thing we sail upon
\nD, it’s really not a word
\nE, is also not a word
\nF, at least Fa it starts with F
\nG, how easy can this be?
\nA, the grade you’d like to get
\nB, the question Hamlet asks
\nand that brings us back to C<\/p>\n

(Now that wasn’t hard, was it? Here’s the second verse)<\/p>\n

Do is C like that makes sense
\nRe somehow comes out as D
\nMe, works if your name is “E”
\nFa at least it starts with F
\nSo and now we get to G
\nLa at least it ends in A
\nTe at least it rhymes with B
\n…and with Do we’re back to C<\/p>\n

(I suppose I should bring it home with another verse, but I’m done for now.)<\/p>\n

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Here’s the Wiki Citation: Solf\u00e8ge. (2023, November 16). In Wikipedia<\/i>. https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solf%C3%A8ge<\/p>\n

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