solfège
See also: solfege
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French solfège. Doublet of solfeggio.
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solfège (usually uncountable, plural solfèges)
- (music) A method of sight singing that uses the syllables do (originally ut), re, mi, fa, sol (or so), la, and si (or ti) to represent the seven principal pitches of the scale, most commonly the major scale. The fixed-do system uses do for C, and the moveable-do system uses do for whatever key the melody uses (thus B is do if the piece is in the key of B). The relative natural minor of a scale may be represented by beginning at la.
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method of sight singing
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French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian solfeggio.
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Noun edit
solfège m (plural solfèges)
- (singing) the art of singing using the sol-fa system
- sol-fa, solfège
- (metonymically) music theory, the training and courses that come with it as well as one's knowledge of it
- Prendre des cours de solfège.
- To partake in music theory classes.
Descendants edit
- → Bulgarian: солфеж (solfež)
- → English: solfège
- → Finnish: solfeesi
- → Galician: solfexo
- → Japanese: ソルフェージュ (sorufēju)
- → Korean: 솔페주 (solpeju)
- → Latvian: solfēža
- → Lithuanian: solfežas
- → Persian:
- Iranian Persian: سلفژ (solfež)
- → Polish: solfeż
- → Portuguese: solfejo
- → Turkish: solfej
Further reading edit
- “solfège”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.