4/11/2024 0 Comments Chromatic solfege hand signs ra![]() Learn solfège and much, much more – Join The Bubble Box today and gain access to my 8 session music activities program for babies… Whether you use the ‘fixed do’ or ‘‘movable do’, both systems are tools for helping to develop the muscle memory for pitch, especially if you add the Curwen/Glover hand signs. However, with the Movable-Do solfège system “Do” is sung as the root (first note) of the scale so any scale or key can be used, thus aiding the development of relative pitch. The ‘fixed’ do system is based upon the C major scale and is more in line with building perfect pitch because C is always sung as “Do” and A is always sung as La etc. There are also two methods of teaching solfège – the ‘fixed do’ system and the ‘movable do’ system. Relative pitch is the ability to recognize and produce pitches in relation to each other. Famous singers with perfect pitch include Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey and Ella Fitzgerald. Perfect pitch (also called absolute pitch) is the ability to identify or re-create a given musical note without the help of a reference tone. There are two types of pitch – perfect and relative pitch. Because solfège focuses on the use of voice (rather than an instrument) it is the perfect way for young children to learn pitch naturally. It does so by requiring the student to hear the note in their mind’s ear, thus honing their listening and aural skills. The idea behind the solfège system is to help develop pitch memory, which is the most basic type of musical memory. What’s more, singing letter names for a musical scale has the potential to confuse young children who are learning the alphabet in the context of language. ![]() With their open vowel endings, the solfège names are much easier to vocalise than traditional 8-note scale names: C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C, which have lots of sounds that strain the voice (eeee sounds). Each note of the musical scale is given a different syllable – Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La and Ti. It is one of the most widely known and popular systems of teaching pitch, which brings together listening, singing and in due course, playing music. Solfège (or Do-Re-Mi) is like the alphabet for music – just as the ABC’s provide the building blocks for reading, solfège provides the building blocks for musical education. (Yes you will be thanking me all day for getting that one stuck in your head!) When we think about the purpose and importance of solfège in musical education it is a good idea to keep in mind the wise words of Maria “ When you know the notes to sing…you can sing most anything!” What is Solfège? ![]() We’ve all heard of Do, Re, Mi thanks to Maria and the Von Trapp children from the Sound of Music… It’s one of those songs you can’t help but sing along to.
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