Solfege

:Do re mi redirects to this article. Do Re Mi is also the name of a song by Nirvana. Do-Re-Mi is a song from The Sound of Music.

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Do Re Mi - Nirvana - Do-Re-Mi - The Sound of Music

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In music and sight singing solfege or solmization is a way of assigning syllables to degrees or steps of the diatonic scale. In order, they are: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, and Do (for the octave). In India, the origin of Solfege was to be found in Vedic texts like the Upanishads, which discuss a musical system of seven notes, realized ultimately in what is known as sargam. Much later in the West it was a pedagogical technique created by Guido of Arezzo; These names are still used for the notes in Latin countries while in Germanic countries the names of letters of the alphabet are used.

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Music - Sight singing - Degree - Step - Diatonic - Scale - Octave - Vedic - Upanishads - Sargam - Guido of Arezzo - Letters - Alphabet

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