Tonic solfa... a couch that plays music when you sit on it? On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:15 PM, John Delacour <JD at pianomaker.co.uk> wrote: > At 22:51 +0100 08/09/2010, David Boyce wrote: > > Wot a load of claptrap! Where to even begin to deconstruct such a pile of >> codswallop! Dr. Leonard Horowitz, indeed. Not a Doctor of Medicine, >> methinks... >> > > Nor yet a Doctor of Etymology, since solfeggio is simply the Italian for > what we call tonic solfa, derived from the notes fa and sol, the subdominant > and the dominant of the scale. There's nothing terribly ancient about do re > mi. > > JD > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100908/fb08a5be/attachment.htm>
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