lah
9.9
The sixth note name in the do re mi music scale
- noun
- /lɑː/
- Specialized
:
lah
- In music class, we learned that lah is the sixth note in the solfège scale.
Examples
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When singing, the teacher told us to remember that lah represents the submediant note.
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In the song, the melody included a long holding of the lah note.
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We call that a Lah-dee-dah chick in my neighbourhood.
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My mom started making challah (KAH-lah) bread," said Nancy.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
1
8.9
The sixth note in a musical scale people sing as do re mi
means the same but is written with an extra consonant at the end
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word lah for the 'sixth note' comes from the old solfège syllable la, taken from an old hymn teachers used to name the notes, so you can remember it as the 'la' in the familiar 'do, re, mi, fa, so, lah'.