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In ). In India, the origin of solfege was to be found in Vedic texts like the Upanishad s, which discuss a musical system of seven notes, realized ultimately in what is known as Sargam . Much later in the West it was a pedagogical technique created by Guido Of Arezzo ; These names are still used for the notes in Latin countries while in Germanic countries the names of Letters of the Alphabet are used. The traditional Western " Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti-Do " was immortalized in '' The Sound Of Music ''. ETYMOLOGY "Solfege" came from French ''solfège'' in the 1910s . (In French, ''solfège'' refers to musical technical skills as a whole: sight reading, writing the score of the music one hears, singing in tune, etc.) The French word in turn came from the Italian ''solfeggio'', which is a combination of ''sol'' and ''fa''. Its equivalent since Early Modern English is sol-fa. The syllable names come from a formerly well-known medieval Hymn , entitled '' Ut Queant Laxis '', in which each successive verse starts on the next higher Scale Degree in the Major Scale ; The first syllable in each verse corresponds to the solfege syllable, with the exception of the first, "Ut," which was changed to the more singable "Do." The original hymn did not start a phrase upon the seventh Scale Degree . To fill in this gap, at a later time the Ti (or sometimes Si) was added to the repertoire. In colloquial language, singers sometimes incorrectly use "solfege" and "sight reading" as synonyms; Sight Reading means reading the piece without benefit of previous study, or Numerical Sight-singing , where the solfege syllables are replaced by the numbers one through seven. In English speaking countries, solfege is most commonly used with singers. In countries where the ''fixed Do'' system is used (see below), solfege is commonly taught to all musicians. VARIATIONS There are two main types of solfege: ''moveable Do'', in which each syllable corresponds with a scale degree, and ''fixed Do'', in which the syllables correspond to fixed pitches. The advantage of moveable Do is that Do always corresponds to the Tonic ; the disadvantage is that the singer must do a harmonic analysis of the piece in order to sing the correct syllables. The shaped note system removes this disadvantage. In fixed Do, the pitches are set: the tonic, Do, is C, Re is D, and so on; Fa is easy to remember, since it is F. There are also other syllables corresponding to notes outside of the major scale. All the solfege syllables are listed in the table below; the syllables in the major scale are shown in bold.
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