solfège

American  

[sol-fezh, -fej, sohl-] / sɒlˈfɛʒ, -ˈfɛdʒ, soʊl- /

noun

Music.

1. solfeggio.

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Etymology

Origin of solfège

First recorded in 1900–05; from French, from Italian

Example Sentences

And we had to sight-read and do our solfège, and to know how to do transcribing and musical notation — all that stuff.”

From New York Times

Or that the sixth note of the solfège scale is “la,” and the sixth note of the C major scale is A — so a-la — Allah!

From Washington Post

Sung text consists of a chorus counting rhythms or the solfège syllables of pitches.

From Los Angeles Times

But the newly engraved score is based on the group’s current members; it loses viola and cello parts, for example, and adds a solfège vocal line for Ms. Bielawa.

From New York Times

Heinrich Isaac’s “Virgo prudentissima” tested some of the voices, but the full choir sections were robust, especially at the repeated perfect-fifth motif on the words “electa ut sol,” a clever musical joke on the solfege syllables ut-sol, which span that musical interval.

From Washington Post