Comments on: Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si… https://www.saltshaker.net/20050816/do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Thu, 29 Dec 2016 11:18:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Wide Open Spaces https://www.saltshaker.net/20050816/do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si#comment-176001 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:48:57 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20050816/do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si#comment-176001 […] Teatro Colón (Columbus Theater) itself, under renovation for the last year or two and expected, potentially, to be reopened in 2010. I’ll save the teatro for another post one day – I think I still have photos from my first visit there a few years ago, or maybe I’ll wait until the re-opening. […]

]]> By: Prof. BRIAN Annan https://www.saltshaker.net/20050816/do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si#comment-92158 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:14:59 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20050816/do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si#comment-92158 I find that the si sounds more flunt when teaching singing – The sound T i is too harsh to be used in singing – Thank you or supplying this information to the public arena

]]> By: dan https://www.saltshaker.net/20050816/do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si#comment-65951 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:40:16 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20050816/do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si#comment-65951 Interesting info – which led me to search out why it might be – and this is what I found:

The seven syllables normally used for this practice in English-speaking countries are: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, and Ti. (In other Western countries, the older names “Sol” and “Si” are retained for “So” and “Ti”.) In Anglo-Saxon countries, “Sol” is often changed to “So”, and “Si” was changed to “Ti” by Sarah Glover in the nineteenth century so that every syllable might begin with a different letter. “So” and “Ti” are used in Tonic sol-fa and in the song “Do-Re-Mi”. ]]> By: gustaw https://www.saltshaker.net/20050816/do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si#comment-65950 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:27:24 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20050816/do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si#comment-65950 Dan,

The names of the notes come from the Hymn to St. John:
Inno a San Giovanni

UT queant laxis
REsonare fibris
MIra gestorum
FAmuli tuorum
SOLve polluti
LAbii reatum
Sancte Iohannes

As you can see, DO-RE-MI-FA-SOL-LA-SI so the question is: Why did they change SI to TI in English?

My mom was a piano player and teacher, so I had to know this since my childhood.

Gustavo

]]> By: SaltShaker » Blog Archive » How Did You Get Here? https://www.saltshaker.net/20050816/do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si#comment-73 Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:13:45 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20050816/do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si#comment-73 […] First, of course, are the search engines. Far and away the most common connection to SaltShaker comes from Yahoo’s search engine. This is followed by Google and Google Images at a combined distant second, which is closely followed by MSN. Then far down the line are AltaVista, Dogpile, Webcrawler, and Lycos. The most common searches are simply searches for food or recipes in either Argentina or Buenos Aires. Then come specific searches like a particular ingredient that I might have mentioned in a post (olluco comes up more frequently than any other in this category), and then strangely, do re me fa so la si, which goes back to a posting I did on a concert at Teatro Colon, but why are so many people searching on that phrase? […]

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