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=IvhqLIZLLmk

Recite This Solfege Using Moveable “Do”…

Recite This Solfege Using Fixed “Do”…

Recite The Chromatic Solfege…

Works Cited

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvhqLIZLLmk

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arezzo

• www.brainybetty.com

• www.classicsforkids.com