Re: [kln2-devel] solfege recap

[Marek W. <Mar...@fu...>]

Hi,

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Mo wrote:
> Personally, in my opinion, learning the names of notes is the start of
> musical anaylsis and theory. From there, the student can move on to
> scales, minor and major keys, key signatures, chords and their
> inversions, and so on.

I hope the kln2 program development can follow similar path. :)

> I'm not even sure if Movable Do would even work in these odd scales.
> Mainly due to the reason in that there is no tonal center in some of
> these scales and Movable is based on assigning Do to the root/tonic
> note.

OK. Plus there is no name for e.g. Fb or B# in Movable Do, right?
One cannot call them E/C (it doesn't make sense from the scale's point of
view). What? Faa and Tii ;))) "Modified movable do". No way.

> "the disadvantage [of Movable Do] is that the singer must do a harmonic
> analysis of the piece in order to sing the correct syllables.

OK. But she has to do harmonic analysis in order to sing the correct
pitch/tune anyway.

> I see the problem. If we ask the user to write a G Major scale, should
> we expect a "Fa#" or "Fa"? If we are testing for correct musical
> anaylsis, I would think Fa# would be correct. But if the user is singing
> the note, then Fa would be correct.

Exactly.

> > Because the guys repored, that in their environment naming notes by single
> > letters is virtually not used. They use Do/Re/Mi for everything: naming
> > notes, scales, pieces of music.
>
> Ok, I didn't know about this either :)
> The guys are going to have the best input on this on how this system
> works for them in their environments.

Mo, I did not understand your last sentence. Could you rephrase for me,
please?

> Marek has come up with some good ideas on how to resolve issues
> pertaining to some of the issues of Fixed Do. I feel fine with his
> resolutions.

:)

> We should take into consideration however, with some issues
> that could come up such as unusual scales, decorated chords, etc.

Yes. Therefore, if anybody else has some comments about how Solfeggio is
used in his country - please post some short description. Maybe we should
give up Solfeggio in some more complicated exercises in future? If so, we
should make users used to using letters too. Maybe always show a
one-letter name by a solfeggio name (like "Do (C)", "Re (D)") ? Just a
loose idea, please don't take it too seriously for now.

Mo, thanks for your comments. :)

~Marek

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