There are two systems. The absolute one which is used in all "roman"
("romanic"?) countries (Italy, Spain, Portugal and middle and south
america). C is do. D is re.
E Flat is E bemolle (depending on the language) and so on.
It doesn't have that much to do whith your "relative" system (called
"Tonika-Do" in German) where Do is the tonic of the major scale. This
is mainly used to teach children. It could be quite a fine system for
singing and learning to directly read an sing sheet music - but only
if you can train it a lot and if the music is not too chromatic (see
your list).
Interestingly (that's why I reply to this topic) - I learned the
flatted steps using "-u". Ib would be "du" (pronounciation "doo") and
so on. Sharp would be "-i" like in your version.
I had to learn these - but since I could not follow the course
because I had other lessons at the same time I only had to do the
final exam. I did perfect by taking some hours to learn to translate
absolute notes into relative ones in real-time - which makes the
whole system questionable.
I even saw a children's choir conductor who had practiced to use both
hands to conduct two part melodies in real-time. They would have to
be diatonic, otherwise he would have either needed four hands ("Du"
is a right hand do with the left hand pointing up, but nothing
compared to "su" (VIIb) which is a right hand pointing up and the
left hand pointing down...;-) )
Or he would have to invent additional signs as lifting the elbow for
sharps and, say, the right knee for flats. You never know.
Of course, its an other matter entirely when using them as absolute names.
And of course, you will remember songs as in Hair: "So-Do-Mi" which
follows the (relative) Syllables. And, of course, pieces like Josquin
Desprez's Mass for Hercules, Dux Ferrarie depend on the
do-re-mi-system - he used the syllables to create his main theme.
At 21:15 08.03.2007, you wrote:
On Mar 7, 2007, at 12:48 PM, John Howell wrote:
in the fixed Do system... 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?
In the version I was taught, chromatic alterations were as follows:
Ib = Da
I# = Di
IIb = Ra
II# = Ri
IIIb = Me
III# = Mis
IVb = Fe
IV# = Fi
Vb = Se
V# = Si
VIb = Le
VI# = Li
VIIb = Te
VII# = Tis
Double-sharps were Dis, Ris, Misis, Fis, Sis, Lis, Tisis
Double-flats were Das, Ras, Ma, Fes, Sa, Les, Ta
I may have gotten two or three of these wrong (it's been years), but
the basic system is as I've outlined it.
If nothing else, these syllables make great Scrabble words (no,
they're not in the official dictionary--which is one reason I refuse
to play by the official dictionary).
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html
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