At 10:10 AM -0500 3/7/07, Christopher Smith wrote:
Is there something in the Chord Style>Solfeggio (in the Chord Menu when Chord Tool is selected) that helps you? I don't know the Italian names, but this gives solfege syllables.
For those unfamiliar with this, the Italian note names ARE solfege syllables, but in the fixed Do system. So Do is always C, Fa is always F, etc. It is a simple substitution for the letter names that we use here, although I don't know how the altered notes are labeled. Is Eb simply Mib? It is one descendant of the system Guido d'Arezzo invented back in the early 11th century, but his system was a movable Do system (different from today's movable Do only in that it was based on 3 hexachords and was not infinitely transposable). Guido used BOTH solmization syllables (solfege syllables) and letter names to identify notes, and his system was so effective that it was still being taught centuries later.
I've run into the solfege chord symbols used in jazz/commercial charts, and it's scary the first time you see it! An Italian tenor (in the style of Mario Lanza) was hired to perform in a night club where we were performing in the mid-'60s, and I was there for the rehearsal with the band. His charts were all in solfege chord symbols! Amazingly, the pianist (a very good one) understood the system well enough (or perhaps knew the tunes well enough!) to read them with no problems.
This transposes to the key that you are using, but you can transpose chord symbols separately from the notes using Mass Edit>Change>Chord Assignments>Transpose...
Sounds as if it's set up for movable Do syllables rather than fixed Do, but it's a little too technical for me to understand. I'm glad that TGTools can handle the problem. And no, it was not a stupid question at all!!!!
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