solfege
- noun
- /sɒlˈfɛʒ/
- Specialized
:
solfeo
- "Have students sing the theme with solfege syllables, letter names, and numbers."
- solfege syllables
- movable-do solfege
- tonal solfege
Examples
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In music class, students learn to identify pitches by singing in solfege using notes like do and re.
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Instruction begins with solfege exercises for singers and instrumentalists alike.
Academic text (1991) -
Next, have them sing each interval with solfege and then with the interval name.
Academic text (1997) -
Divide the class so that each half sings its part with solfege.
Academic text (1997) -
Children who are familiar with using these pitches in solfege easily can sing and/or perform hand signs along with the music.
Academic text (1990) -
You may choose to do the notation yourself or, for an additional challenge, students could use their solfege skills to notate a single phrase of the song.
Academic text (1997) -
Sing to a neutral syllable like "loo" or start developing some knowledge of movable-do solfege.
Academic text (1995) -
Use tonal solfege in learning sequence activities to develop audiation of tonalities and tonal functions.
Academic text (1999) -
Here, tonal patterns and tonal solfege are used to develop comprehension of the underlying tonal structure of music.
Academic text (1999) -
Play an improvised pattern—or sing it using movable-do solfege—and have the class play it back in rhythm.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
A simple way to teach music by giving each scale note a syllable like do re mi
A way to teach singing using the syllables do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, and ti
A system that uses syllables like do re mi to name notes to teach singers
A singing exercise using syllables like do, re, mi to practice pitch
A way of writing music with syllables like do, re, mi to show the notes of a scale
Surface Forms
Etymology
Solfege comes from French solfège and Italian solfeggio, names for a singing method that uses the scale syllables 'do', 're', 'mi'. So, think of singing those syllables to learn pitch — that is why solfege means a system for teaching singing and musical pitch.
