The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #95820 Message #3618118
Posted By: GUEST
13-Apr-14 - 03:08 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Conversion to Tonic Sol Fa?
Subject: RE: Tech: Conversion to Tonic Sol Fa?
The reason the Continent has so few folkies is our tunes are modal, and that can be described in modal solfege, where the solfege note is relative to the key. We can say the third above the tonic, in solfege Mi, but the Continentals understand Mi as always being E in the CMaj scale. They cannot then get their heads around Mi being the same interval in another key, want to say, oh, but that's Re mol, and then have nothing left to handle modal scales.
I don't know who started it, but they deserve to be incribed in the Devil's Little Black Book.