![]() ![]() It’s likely, they’ve learned a lot of songs and tunes etc at the piano on the “white notes” only and, possibly, this may just seem like the most natural key(C) for many people?Īs I mention in my profile, I’ve been learning the PA and clarsach. She couldn’t understand why all songs didn’t use this system as she found letter such as “A”, “B” and “C” meaningless.Īs has been said, “doh” is moveable depending on the scale of the song or tune but it makes sense in some ways that people might think of “C” in the first instance. One singer once lamented that it made things for difficult for her when this wasn’t the case. In many old song books etc, you will actually see the notes “doh”, “ray” “me” and so on etc. They were slightly cryptic but I’ve got them now.Īctually, I thought the thread was a wind up at first but that’s, maybe, I’m looking at things from a tune player’s point of view. I skimmed through the posts and missed both your’s and that of Alpine Rabbit. Movable Do as we know is a Victorian invention and became popular in English speaking countries with efforts to encourage the singing of sacred music (there were various inventions, such as the shapenotes of Sacred Harp). The fact that it’s the minor scale that starts on A is sort of a coincidence.Īs this two octave range started to be extended, the modern system of repeating the note letters developed.ĭo-re-mi was an invention of Guido d’Arrezzo (sp?…) and referred to fixed pitches. So what you have here is a system centred around the major scale, but with a couple of notes underneath it, which makes a lot of sense for a system centred around vocal music. The simple answer is that at one point, almost all music existed in a two octave diatonic range, and the simplest possible system could be used to represent this: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N, one letter for each note. This is a very good question, and the discussion about doh-re-mi has sidetracked it somewhat. Re: why does the note A stands fpr LA and not DO, or why Do is the note C and nor A? The use of “Si” versus “Ti” varies regionally.“ # “Si” or “Ti” was added as the seventh degree (from Sancte Johannes, St. “Do” later replaced the original “Ut” for ease of singing (most likely from the beginning of Dominus, Lord), though “Ut” is still used in some places. These became the basis of the solfège system. These names follow the original names reputedly given by Guido d’Arezzo, who had taken them from the first syllables of the first six musical phrases of a Gregorian chant melody “Ut queant laxis”, which began on the appropriate scale degrees. In Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Romanian, Greek, Russian, Mongolian, Flemish, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Turkish notation the notes of scales are given in terms of Do–Re–Mi–Fa–Sol–La–Si rather than C–D–E–F–G–A–B. Since a Bes or B♭ in Northern Europe (i.e., a Bdouble flat elsewhere) is both rare and unorthodox (more likely to be expressed as Heses), it is generally clear what this notation means. Occasionally, music written in German for international use will use H for B-natural and Bb for B-flat (with a modern-script lower-case b instead of a flat sign). Therefore, in German music notation, H is used instead of B♮ (B-natural), and B instead of B♭ (B-flat). “In parts of Europe, including Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Norway, Denmark, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Finland and Iceland (and Sweden before about 1990s), the Gothic b transformed into the letter H (possibly for hart, German for hard, or just because the Gothic b resembled an H). ![]() A few European countries, including Germany, adopt an almost identical notation, in which H substitutes for B” However, within the English-speaking and Dutch-speaking world, pitch classes are typically represented by the first seven letters of the Latin alphabet (A, B, C, D, E, F and G). ![]() “In traditional music theory, most countries in the world use the solfège naming convention Do–Re–Mi–Fa–Sol–La–Si, including for instance Italy, Portugal, Spain, France, Poland, Romania, most Latin American countries, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Russia, and all the Arabic-speaking or Persian-speaking countries. For the answer (and a lot more that hardly likely to interest anyone) ![]()
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