sol
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8.4
- noun
- /sɒl/
- Specialized
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sol
- For my three- and four-year-olds, I sing simple folk songs with and without movement, echoing sol-mi patterns using hand placement and singing alone while they move.
- sol-fa
- tonic sol
- sol-mi interval
In movable doe we use T so doe re MI FA Sol la T doe.
- In movable doe we use T so doe re MI FA Sol la T doe.
Examples
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After thirty years of using sol-mi as a first step to teaching melody to children, dialogue about this practice seems warranted.
Academic text (2005) -
Use tonic sol-fa.
Academic text (2004) -
-- It's simple: singing, sol-fa, and hand signs are limited to two pitches.
Academic text (2005) -
The allure of study based on sol-mi is obvious:
Academic text (2005) -
Typically, children begin music study by singing folk songs that have the descending sol-mi interval, which is easiest to produce correctly.
Academic text (2009) -
Assign sol-fa syllables based on the pentatonic scale and sing it.
Academic text (2015) -
Therefore, sol-mi should be the foundational interval that generates learning about and reading tonal patterns in music.
Academic text (2005) -
Philosophies and practices of the Kodály and Orff approaches, in particular, brought the sol-mi interval to the forefront of elementary music education.
Academic text (2005) -
Orff teachers develop students' improvisational and other skills by using pentatonic tonal patterns beginning with sol-mi and rhythm patterns during question-and-answer activities involving instrumental playing, movement, speaking, and singing.
Academic text (2006) -
In the solfège system, the note sol is often sung with a rising pitch.
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Sol in music comes from an old church song where each line began with a different singing syllable, and 'sol' became the name for the fifth note. So sol is the singing name for the note G.