It's there in the oldest folk songs and central to what they technically call "
solmization" or "solfege".
Named after the most successful of the numerous shape-note tune books that were compiled in that region and period, The Sacred Harp (1844), the tradition as practiced in the South includes a number of time-honored customs such as opening and closing the session with prayer, shared leadership, arrangement of the singers into a "hollow square" with the leader in the middle, and singing the tune using
solmization syllables before performing the words.
Lyons, a former Classics scholar at King's College in Cambridge, provides an English translation of Horace's Odes, along with historical background; information on Horace's life and education and interpretations of him as a songwriter; and how the odes are the source for Guido d'Arezzo's
solmization system.
(The cho whole-tone series was conceived as fitting in between the notes of the ch'ing series.) Finally, it could be a reference to gamut scale positions (that is, the old kung, shang, chueh, chih, yii
solmization) that were "harmonically unaltered" (also known as "correct" [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]).
Its wide array of images (that includes, instruments, mnemonic aids, musical notation, tuning diagrams, dance steps, and more), descriptions of instrumental designs, and explanations of musical concepts (such as,
solmization, origin of the scale, harmony of the spheres, etc.) supplies comprehensive support for her view that musical models of all sorts informed and influenced those of science.
Berata for the first time, he immediately began to sing the melody with the vowel sounds that serve as Balinese
solmization syllables or ndings.
Solmization can partly explain some of the features that Williams isolates in the early part of the book.
This review is not the forum for discussing this policy at length; certainly singers at the time would read their parts prima vista according to the melodic line and the
solmization; the question is whether they or their choirmaster would adjust their reading the second time round.
Or, in serious contemporary art, that televisual disdain for "hypocritical" retrovalues like originality, depth, and integrity has no truck with those recombinant "appropriation" styles of art and architecture in which past becomes pastiche,[25] or with the tuneless
solmization of a Glass or a Reich, or with the self-conscious catatonia of a platoon of Raymond Carver wannabes?
In 1917, Wolfli began composing music by means of
solmization, replacing traditional notation with an obscure code of words and symbols.
Guido of Arezzo is surely the most familiar of all Medieval music theorists; certainly no history of music course fails to introduce Guido as the inventor of the staff and of
solmization. And many, if not most, also credit him with the system of overlapping hexachords, taken as the way musicians of the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance conceived pitch relationships, and therefore seen as the key to understanding medieval and Renaissance music properly.