la
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- noun
- /lɑ/
- Specialized
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la
- During the music lesson, the teacher explained that la is essential for understanding scales.
It just wasn't the note I was singing La, La, La, La.
- It just wasn't the note I was singing La, La, La, La.
- So if we take a particular syllable like La La Li, La La.
- It was like La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, la.
- Sala La La La La the Egyptian king.
- It's it and it's not as La La what we saying it is.
Examples
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When practicing solfège, we sing la to denote the sixth note.
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It just wasn't the note I was singing La, La, La, La.
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In the song, the sixth note of the scale is represented by the syllable la.
Synonyms
The sixth note name in the do re mi music scale
Idioms
Compounds
A wide river mouth between Argentina and Uruguay where the Paraná and Uruguay rivers meet the Atlantic Ocean
- Specialized
A brain disorder that causes sudden unwanted movements and sounds, sometimes rude words
A wide river mouth between Argentina and Uruguay where two rivers meet the ocean
A large city in central Bolivia with many companies and different cultures
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word la comes from a long-ago Latin hymn called Ut queant laxis, where singers used the first syllables of the lines to name notes and chose 'la' for the 'sixth note'. So, when you sing 'do re mi fa sol la', you are using the same simple syllable people used to learn music long ago.