solfa syllable

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solfa syllable - one of the names for notes of a musical scale in solmization

syllable - a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme; "the word `pocket' has two syllables"

solfa, tonic solfa - a system of solmization using the solfa syllables: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti

doh, do, ut - the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization

re, ray - the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization

mi - the syllable naming the third (mediant) note of any major scale in solmization

fa - the syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization

so, soh, sol - the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization

lah, la - the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization

te, ti, si - the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization