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Solfege
Music Appreciation
8th grade
Ms. Kristen Kametz
What is solfege?
• A method of teaching sight singing using
the syllables “ Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, and
Ti”.
The purpose of solfege…
• To help singers be able to accurately sing
pitches when they are sight reading a piece
or having difficulty with intervals
Hand Signs
Who Was The Inventor of
Solfege?
• Guido de Arezzo
• 992 A.D?-1033A.D?
• Italian Monk, who was also the inventor of
modern musical notation and the music staff
itself.
Moveable “ Do”
• “ Do” is the first syllable of every scale
followed by “Re”, “ Mi” , “Fa”, and “ Sol”
on. ( ha ha! get it?)
Fixed “Do”
• In a fixed “ Do” system, C is always “ Do”,
D is always “Re” and so on. What would
this be if it were sung on a Fixed “ Do”
system?
Chromatic Solfege
• Ascending~ (Do), Di, (Re), Ri, (Mi), (Fa),
Fi, (Sol), Si, (La), Li, (Ti)
• Descending~ (Do), (Ti), Te, (La), Le, (Sol),
Se, (Fa), (Mi), Me, (Re), Ra
Example of Movable “ Do”
Example of Fixed “Do”
Example of Chromatic Solfege
“ Do, a Dear..”
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvhqLIZ
LLmk
Recite This Solfege Using
Moveable “Do”…
Recite This Solfege Using Fixed
“Do”…
Recite The Chromatic Solfege…
Works Cited
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvhqLIZ
LLmk
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arezzo
• www.brainybetty.com
• www.classicsforkids.com