What is Solfege?
Solfege is a language; a musical language. It’s not “spoken” by musicians but it IS used by us every day, We don’t go to Italy or France and begin speaking Solfege, yet it is used in music schools around the globe. Solfege is the use of syllables instead of letter names for notes. DO, RE, MI, FA, SOL, LA, TI, and back to DO. You have probably heard songs using Solfege. The most popular place you can hear the use of Solfege is in the musical play “The Sound of Music.” It was written by Rogers and Hammerstein a long time ago, and it was made popular by Julie Andrews in the song, “DO, a deer, a female deer; RE a drop of golden sun. . . .” There is a hand symbol for each of the syllables in Solfege. DO looks like a fist; RE looks like two planks leaning up against one another, and so on. To learn Solfege for most students is very helpful. It is musical fun as well as being educational!
