Class 15: Solfege Ascending And Descending

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[Psoewish]

BAM marker in your face! :P

[waltribeiro]

@Psoewish in your face! hhahaa

[pliskinn0089]

WTF RE is D not G , is absolute its just another way of calling it .

[waltribeiro]

@pliskinn0089 hmmm.... confused

[rochiix3]

it is DO RE MI FA SOL LA SI DO

[kingkeith666]

hes insane

[itorres008]

@StupidLaserTricks Apparently it's because Si is used between So and La as "associated" to So (they are formed with an "I"). So, to prevent conflict they renamed the 7th step as Ti in the 19th century.

[itorres008]

@itorres008 I Have to say the nomencature in Spanish is not really as logical as in English. I write and describe music in English. @pliskinn0089 Imagine in Spanish "dos corcheas duran lo mismo igual que una negra". What? In English it's 2 8th notes sound as long as a quarter note. Easier to picture.

On the other hand, in English,why didn't note "C", the starting point of keys with no accidentals in the circle of fifths, our favorite...get assigned the "A" which would be the starting letter?

[itorres008]

@pliskinn0089 Ah, I'm going to say you probably speak Spanish (como yo/like me)... For some reason C D E F G A B C in Spanish are called Do Re MI Fa Sol La Si Do...who did this in Latin or Spanish or in which century, I don't know. But a native Spanish speaker will say just that Re is D...absolute, not relative to anything.

However, solfege is a way of naming the scale degrees RELATIVE to a the scale. So think about it that way.

[itorres008]

Did not know notes in between the scale tones had solfege names too, let alone different ones ascending or descending. Learned something today, Thanks! :-)

[americandodgeball]

It's a lot easier to explain if you use an actual piano keyboard

[colourfulwithaU]

@pliskinn0089

That is only the case in 'fixed do' solfege. In 'movable do' solfege (which, evidently, this guy is using), the 're' is always the second degree of the scale. Since G is the second degree of the F scale, when you are in the key of F, G is 're'. And that's what he was talking about.

[pliskinn0089]

@pliskinn0089 C , D , F etc its just a way to call sound , in my country and many other countrys we dont use letters to call sound , we use "do re mi fa sol la si" . its the same, its absolute, it does not mean the Degree of the scale. Way before C F G , even in classical music. Its always Do re mi.

[momlovestosing]

@pliskinn0089 He was clear in stating that he was explaining the Key of C and transposed to the Key of F, in which Re in fact would be G.