Paul Carmichael <
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El Tue, 28 Sep 2021 04:50:46 +0000, Matt Faunce escribió:
Here are all the diatonic melodies (sans rhythm) within the outline of
Do -
X - X - Sol with no leap being greater than an octave.
I end each melody on Sol because I like to start each next melody with
its Do using the pitch of Sol from the melody that just ended; this
allows me to cycle through the circle of fifths.
I'm going to investigate this a bit later so I know what you're talking about.
They use that do, re, mi stuff here (Spain) but it's just a straight
mapping of C, D, E - I think it might be called static Do or somesuch.
It's just names of notes and chords and nothing to do with singing.
I expect Wiki will enlighten me.
I use what we call “movable do”. I forgot to clarify that. I use it because that’s what I learned in school years ago.
So I look at the symbols, Do Re Mi etc, whose pitches are relative to the tonic, then I sing the fixed symbols at their fixed pitches. For example,
if I see the following melodies as the first three melodies on the list,
Do ➚ Re ➚ Mi ➚ Sol
Do ➚ Re ➚ Fa ➚ Sol
Do ➚ Mi ➚ La ➚ Sol
because I designate each next melody to have the pitch for its Do a fifth higher than the last Do, I sing,
C ➚ D ➚ E ➚ G
G ➚ A ➚ C ➚ D
D ➚ F# ➚ B ➚ A
All the letter symbols that are natural notes have one syllable. All the
letter symbols that are sharp and flat notes have two syllables. So I sing
the natural notes with a slow quarter note, and I sing the sharp or flat
notes as two eighth notes on the same pitch.
This method takes advantage of the benefits of movable do, and practices tagging (in my mind) those movable symbols with the fixed letter-symbols.
The limit of this method is that the rhythm have to be slow to compensate
for those dual-syllabic symbols.
The method in this post is an alternative to what I wrote in the thread entitled 164 Exercises, back on April 7th:
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.music.classical.guitar/c/AyxV2gTS0HA
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Matt
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