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What is Solfege?
Presented by Aubrey Hollinger
History
Early on in music, tunes had to be passed on through singing rather than writing them down. A monk named Guido di Arezzo (ca. 995-1050) created a system of reading and writing music. He showed these new teaching methods to Pope John XXI in 1029. In this demonstration, he showed him this new way which is very similar to how we see music today.
History
What is Solfege?
Solfege is a way of sight reading music by putting names to each of the notes in a pattern. There are also matching hand signs to help with reading music. When learned correctly, it helps with sight reading harder pieces or harder musical leaps.
What is Solfege?
The Seven Solfege Names
- Do
- Re
- Mi
- Fa
- Sol
- La
- Ti
Why do we use it?
Solfege is an important part of music and being able to accurately read music. It can cut the time needed to learn in new piece down significantly. It is also a universally used method so once learned you can use it in any choir setting.
Why do we use it?
How do we apply it to choir?
Practice! Choirs can practice using solfege on each of their choir songs both in and out of class. A lot of choirs use solfege to read their music from the first time they get the piece until it is perfect and then they substitute the words.
How do we apply it to choir?
Example of Solfege
Solfege can replace words of a song as you learn it like below:
Example of Solfege
Why replace the words?
Singers who use solfege will have help in the development of perfect pitch. Solfege is considered one of the most important musical skills because it works to connect the brain with the voice by giving each sung note a name that can apply to any song.
What kind of music can use Solfege?
Any kind of music! If you sat down with the sheet music of a popular song you hear on the radio, that would have solfege to match it as well! Any piece of sheet music can be written in solfege. Some singers are trained enough that they can hear the solfege without looking at the music!
Ways to succeed
at Solfege:
- Practice!
- Apply to many different songs
- Start small with just Do, Mi, and Sol
- Start with known songs and learn
solfege from them
Video Practice:
This video is an example of ways to practice solfege.
Video Practice:
Move-able Do solfege (advanced example)
This is an example of steps that can be taken after solfege names are learned and applied.
Move-able Do solfege (advanced example)
Citations:
Google Images
http://sightsinging.com/solfege-history/
http://www.southcalmusic.com/solfege.php
Youtube- The Singing School and Lorna