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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
The (Musical) Tone in a Person's Voice
Hello,
I have a question for anyone here who is familiar with music:
Do "Do, Re, Mi" correspond to middle C, D, E on the piano?
Thanks in advance,
Jen
I have a question for anyone here who is familiar with music:
Do "Do, Re, Mi" correspond to middle C, D, E on the piano?
Thanks in advance,
Jen
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It can. " "Do" is the "tonal center" in the diatonic major and the diatonic minor scales. "Do - Re - Mi" are the "first three" steps of the diatonic major scale.
- It can.
- " "Do" is the "tonal center" in the diatonic major and the diatonic minor scales.
- "Do - Re - Mi" are the "first three" steps of the diatonic major scale.
- Any one of the twelve tones in the "chromatic scale" can be chosen as "Do," the tonal center.
- "Re" will be a whole tone (two semi-tones) above Do, and Mi will be a whole tone above Re.
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It can. But it can also correspond to "G-flat - A-flat - B-flat."
"Do" is the "tonal center" in the diatonic major and the diatonic minor scales.
"Do - Re - Mi" are the "first three" steps of the diatonic major scale.
Any one of the twelve tones in the "chromatic scale" can be chosen as "Do," the tonal center.
"Re" will be a whole tone (two semi-tones) ab
"Do" is the "tonal center" in the diatonic major and the diatonic minor scales.
"Do - Re - Mi" are the "first three" steps of the diatonic major scale.
Any one of the twelve tones in the "chromatic scale" can be chosen as "Do," the tonal center.
"Re" will be a whole tone (two semi-tones) ab
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AnonymousDo "Do, Re, Mi" correspond to middle C, D, E on the piano?Only in some European systems. A French Symphonie en re mineur would be in English a Symphony in D Minor.
See Avangi's response above for the English-language system in which the letter names are absolute pitches and the Latin syllables are relative
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Thanks, CJ.
Somehow I missed that. I tend to think of "Do-Re-Mi" only in terms of Solfeggio, as we were taught in grammar school in New England. My European recollection on the subject seems to be limited to the trivial fact that "B-flat" in German is "H."
Then there's the interesting quirk that "Ti" in some languages (eg Spanish) is "Si."
I also neglected to mention
Somehow I missed that. I tend to think of "Do-Re-Mi" only in terms of Solfeggio, as we were taught in grammar school in New England. My European recollection on the subject seems to be limited to the trivial fact that "B-flat" in German is "H."
Then there's the interesting quirk that "Ti" in some languages (eg Spanish) is "Si."
I also neglected to mention
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Good points - except B-flat is B and B-natural is H. Not only is B H in German, but 'flats' are weird as well. For example, E-flat is S. You may already know, but I'll remind you that Dmitri Shostakovich put his initials in his Tenth Symphony. Transliterating from the Cyrillic of Russian to the German spelling, he got D SCH. Thus the note series D, E-flat, C, B figures prominently in t
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