Like can you sing a melody in solfège?
Right pitch or not, it seems to me just about everyone can whistle or hum some improvised tones on whatever they hear. And those with vocal chops can apply that same sense for improvisation at least to the odd turn or ornamentation. My question is, when solfège-trained vocalists and instrumentalists improvise, is it done from sound to vocals/fingers directly with the solfège added concurrently / afterwards when trying to communicate things to other musicians or does it just go through the solfège? I mean, I know there's people who can't even read music that can improvise on an instrument so I know sound-to-fingers exist for a few at the very least. And it seems to me most people who sight-read/sing, internally or externally, do so through solfège at least in low tempos simply because that's how they were trained. My question is, does solfège branch into the ability to improvise directly to the instrument/vocals or does it simply has so much overlap with the ability to improvise directly that it's taught as a reliable way to improvise? Also, does it depend on the individual or maybe fixed vs. movable?
Thanks.
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Mi-fa = Mipha and Si-do = Sidon. Neat! Can anyone find a hidden Do-re-fa = Dorephan?
Thanks to u/reddit-emoji-police, their post sparked my investigation.
I come from Luxembourg and I am now living in The Hague. I want to learn to play the piano but after discussing with my parents they said it's the norm to do solfège first and then continue with piano. However, after a Google search I found nothing of such courses in The Hague? Does anyone have experience with this or does anyone know where they do offer such courses?
I’m seeing this (see image 3 in the link) in five-line staff in #openmusictheory and I’m going crazy. The first note:D4 is indicated in Solfège as ‘do’; shouldn’t it be ‘re’? None of the names fit to me. I’m missing sth...
As quote in the article
>Williams initially wanted a seven-note sequence, but it was too long for the simple musical “greeting” Spielberg wanted. The composer enlisted a mathematician to calculate the number of five-note combinations they could potentially make from a 12-note scale. When that number proved to be somewhere upwards of 134,000 combinations, Williams created 100 distinct versions, and they simply whittled the combinations down one by one until they had a winner.
Sol to do.. mi sol... la la la sol... fa fa fa mi... re re re do... do do do do do do... do do ti do re mi
Guess the popular song made up of this Solfège pattern
So, after watching today's TwoSet video, I was thinking: Wait a minute, didn't we learn the Do-Re-Mi stuff at the very first music class? So I begin searching, and I'm surprised that this isn't a universal thing.
(Story time)
I started learning music when I was 3, my mother sent me to Yamaha Music School (not sponsored). They taught me the "Fixed Do Solfège" system, which means I sang songs in Do-Re-Me. I had never encountered the C D E thing until I was 6 and they introduced me to chords. They told me that Do-Mi-So forms the C chord or So-Ti-Fa forms the G7 chord. That's when I first hear about the C D E system.
I really attribute my perfect pitch ability to those first 3 years learning music. (yay perfect pitch gang)
The question is: how did you all learn the music for the first time? Please share your story in the comment section below.
Sorry if this isn’t appropriate for this sub, but this one really confuses me since there are only six pitches in the whole tone scale instead of seven, and since the whole tone scale also isn’t really taking notes from one specific key. I’m losing sleep over this haaaaaaaaaaaaa
my high school choir directors use them almost as much as our actual vocal cords, and i get that it's a way to convey pitch visually, but even though i can memorize the connection between do-ti and the signs, i never actually form a connection between the signs and the tone, or do-ti and the tone. whenever we do "up two, down one" (do mi re fa...), i can nail the actual notes but i have to keep glancing at the poster on the wall to get the solfege right.
it COULD also just be the fact that my recall is hampered by my ADHD but i thought i'd consult my fellow choirinos for their take on it
Hello everyone I have a question regarding solfège.Does it help with ear training(to recognise intervals)?I know the simple syllables do re mi fa sol la si do of the major scale.When I practice ear training I sit in front of the piano and pick the middle c (do).then I sing the major scale in solfège one note at a time and hit it on the piano.Then I pick the intervals one by one and sing the intervalle tones in solfège .
In general do the solfège syllables help with hitting the right pitch,note easier when singing?Is the nature of these syllables that prevents you from singing the wrong pitch?
tl;dr one that truly considers 12 different notes. There is a system, but just like the conventional method it groups the notes as 7 main notes and 5 variations of them. I want a system that gives all 12 notes a separate name, with no two names being a variation of each other.
In case you haven't heard of it before, solfège is the principle of giving every note a name (la, si/ti, do, re, mi, fa, so(l) instead of A, B, C, D, E, F, G) and using those names when singing a melody without text. Usually when singing in a key with sharps of flats, you omit those sharps and flats so that you have just one syllable per note.
However, I have absolute hearing and it messes with my brain to e.g. sing a fa sharp but just call it 'fa', so I started looking for a system that gives them all a separate name. I did find one, but it gives fa sharp the name 'fi' which is still almost the same thing and doesn't solve my confusion.
Does anybody know a truly chromatic name system? Or should I just come up with my own?
For example, if in the key of A minor, a passage goes G#-Fx-G#, is there a syllable for the f double sharp (Si-xx-Si)? Or would it just be sung as its enharmonic (Si-Sol-Si)?
Also, are there syllables for a lowered Do, a raised Ti, a lowered Fa, and a raised Mi? (C flat, B sharp, F flat, and E sharp in the key of C)
