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1 hour ago, analogika said:

Interesting. I've never seen them noted as "me" and "ra" — "mi" and "re" only. 

moveable do, me is flat mi

ra is flat re

 

Mary Had a little Lamb in Half/Whole Diminished scale? 

 

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20 minutes ago, bfields said:

In fact, I've always seen "ra" and "me" used for the flatted second and third, which makes for an odd melody in this case....

 

 

Interesting - I did not know this.  (I'm practicing, after all).  I have wondered how I'm supposed to deal with sharps and flats, and I've been assuming the syllables are the same whether one sings a major or a minor scale.  Now I have to go learn the chromatic syllables.  Does one pronounce "mi" and "me" the same way?  "Re" and "ra"?

 

do do mi so do la

la fa so la so

do do mi so so re

mi fa mi re do

 

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On top of spaghetti you lost your poor meatball when somebody sneezed. 
 

Chromatic: 

 

#’s 

do, di, re, ri, mi, fa, fi, so, si, la, li, ti, do 

 

b’s

do, ti, te, la, le, so, se, fa, mi, me, re, ra, do 

 

audio clips with pronunciation

https://solfasinger.com/chromatic/

 

descending line - 

do so mi ti so mi

la ti fi la le fa re mi 

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As someone who did a whole lot of movable-do solfege in college, I appreciated Mary having a Phrygian lamb there!

 

For real, some people get down on movable do, but those four years of sight singing helped train my ear and hear pitch relationships contextually SO much better than pure interval training ever did. My biggest leap forward in "hearing what I want to play before I play it" in my musical education.

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