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BS: Music history found in the dictionary
| CapriUni | 03 Jan 02 - 01:07 PM | |
| Dead Horse | 03 Jan 02 - 02:21 PM | |
| masato sakurai | 03 Jan 02 - 02:37 PM | |
| CapriUni | 03 Jan 02 - 03:24 PM | |
| masato sakurai | 04 Jan 02 - 03:41 PM | |
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Subject: Music history found in the dictionary From: CapriUni Date: 03 Jan 02 - 01:07 PM I found the following in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, and thought others here might be interested. I also wondered if the music historians around here knew the notes after the opening syllables of each line gamut (gàm´et) noun 1. A complete range or extent: a face that expressed a gamut of emotions, from rage to peaceful contentment. 2. Music. The entire series of recognized notes.
[Middle English, the musical scale, from Medieval Latin gamma ut, low G : gamma, lowest note of the medieval scale (from Greek gamma, gamma). See GAMMA + ut, first note of the lowest hexachord (after ut, first word in a Latin hymn to Saint John the Baptist, the initial syllables of successive lines of which were sung to the notes of an ascending scale CDEFGA: I don't know where 'ti' comes in ... maybe a note in another hymn? Anyway, I just get a kick out of obscure trivia like this... Copyright info: (Third Edition copyright © 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from InfoSoft International, Inc. All rights reserved.)
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Subject: RE: BS: Music history found in the dictionary From: Dead Horse Date: 03 Jan 02 - 02:21 PM And was the DOH added by Homer Simpson? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Music history found in the dictionary From: masato sakurai Date: 03 Jan 02 - 02:37 PM This (CLICK HERE) may be of some help. Incidentally, The American Heritage Dictionary is online. It says ti is "Alteration of si." ~Masato |
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Subject: RE: BS: Music history found in the dictionary From: CapriUni Date: 03 Jan 02 - 03:24 PM Thanks for the Latin Link, Masato! The translation was, indeed helpful. And a song whose melody goes a step higher on each line would be a good one to warm up the voice ... not so sure what it would do for "defiled lips", though... As I understand it, the lips don't have much to do with singing, anyway... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Music history found in the dictionary From: masato sakurai Date: 04 Jan 02 - 03:41 PM This would be more helpful: Ut Queant Laxis Resonare Fibris from CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA. I can't read THIS PAGE, but it seems interesting. |