Were the do, re, mi notes of the scale taken from longer words?
The female deer, the sunbeam and the name you call yourself are syllables taken from old Latin words, and the genius who thought of using them was a gentle choir master of Italy. He invented an easier way to teach singing and the do mi scale was part of his system. Our musical scale dates back to ancient history but it had to grow and improve itself step by patient step. Notes are sounds, naturally, and sounds are vibrations. The higher or lower pitch of each note is a matter of its number of sound vibrations per second. The ro of pitch was figured out by a math wizard of ancient Greece. His name was Pythagoras and he lived more than 2,000 years ago. The people of those days had fine instruments and performed lots of fine popular music. Their ways for writing their notes were poor, and musicians depended mostly on hearing a tune and performing it by ear. About 1830 years ago, further work was done on the scale by another math wizard, the famous astronomer Ptolemy of Alexandria. In the
