Why Do Re Mi?

"Do-Re-Mi" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. Within the story, it is used by Maria to teach the solfège

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Origin. In eleventh-century Italy, the music theorist Guido of Arezzo invented a notational system that named the six notes of the hexachord after the first syllable of each line of the Latin hymn Ut queant laxis, the "Hymn to St. John the Baptist", yielding ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la.
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of the major musical scale to the Von Trapp children who learn to sing for the first time, even though their father disallowed frivolity after their mother's death.

What is the point of Do Re Mi?

Do Re Mi or 'Tonic Sol-fa' is a traditional and very effective way to teach the concept of intervals and the sound of each note of the scale. It helps build an understanding of how to pitch notes and know how they should sound.

What is the origin of Do Re Mi?

The scale's origins date back to 11th Century Italy and Guido of Arezzo, a music theorist, who modelled the scale on the “Hymn to St. John the Baptist”. Guido took the opening syllable of each line to create a scale that wouldn't be entirely unfamiliar to music students of the modern era: ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la.

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