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solmisation


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Solmization  \Sol`mi*za"tion\,  n.  [F.  solmisation,  fr  solmiser 
  to  sol-fa;  --  called  from  the  musical  notes  sol,  mi  See 
  {Sol-fa}.]  (Mus.) 
  The  act  of  sol-faing.  [Written  also  {solmisation}.] 
 
  Note:  This  art  was  practiced  by  the  Greeks;  but  six  of  the 
  seven  syllables  now  in  use  are  generally  attributed  to 
  Guido  d'  Arezzo  an  Italian  monk  of  the  eleventh 
  century,  who  is  said  to  have  taken  them  from  the  first 
  syllables  of  the  first  six  lines  of  the  following 
  stanza  of  a  monkish  hymn  to  St  John  the  Baptist. 
 
  Ut  queant  laxis  Resonare  fibris  Mira  gestorum 
  Famuli  tuorum  Solve  polluti  Labii  reatum,  Sancte 
  Joannes.  Professor  Skeat  says  the  name  of  the 
  seventh  note,  si  was  also  formed  by  him  [Guido]  from 
  the  initials  of  the  two  words  of  the  last  line  but 
  this  is  disputed,  Littr['e]  attributing  the  first  use 
  of  it  to  Anselm  of  Flanders  long  afterwards.  The 
  syllable  do  is  often  substituted  for  ut 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  solmisation 
  n  :  a  system  of  naming  the  notes  of  a  musical  scale  by  syllables 
  instead  of  letters  [syn:  {solmization}] 




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