Hi, can anyone tell me what's the title of this piece of music pls (before it drives me crazy ringing in my head)? I usually hear it played on a piano + violin.

(Okay, I hope the notation in text format is clear enough...)

4-4 time signature. Underlined notes means quavers. Dash means 1 full crotchet beat.

Mi Soh Mi Re Do Si Do |
Fa Fa - Re# |
Mi La# Mi Re Do Si Do |
Re Re - Re# |
Mi Soh Mi Re Do Si Do |
La - - So Fa |
Mi Re Do La Si |
Do - - rest||

Thank you, anyone...........

The "Si"s throw me off a little.

And can you not actually read music, because there are better ways to notate that!

Well if there's like a proper online manuscript that i have to notate this and paste it here, i would.

I acknowledge that the way it's been written in my previous posting is kind of "off", just hoping that someone can help.

Not too sure how best to notate when typing in text format on the computer like that.

The other way I can think of is to use numerals.

Anyway, any help is appreciated. Otherwise, it's fine. Thank you.

you could use the note names

Yes... ABCDEFG... you know how to read music?!

if you know the key of the piece, that would help to, because do,re,mi etc will be different depending on the key!(I think!)

Nat

Key wouldn't matter as it is all relative.

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The "Si"s throw me off a little.

I think si = te. My Japanese students use si or shi instead of te.

Maggie

OH ! yes, I've got your tune in my head now - and I think it might be

Salut d'Amour by Edward Elgar

Maggie

Thanks Maggie, appreciate much.

What I believe is called movable-Do solfege is no longer very common in this country, but it is very useful. Do represents the tonic rather than always C as it does in fixed-Do solfege / European notation*. Older choral scores often have the entire parts written written above the stave this way for choristers who read this notation by preference- (I have seen it in copies of the Ceremony of Carols so it does work for reasonably complicated music) there is a whole technique for notating the rhythm using punctuation, primes (Do') for octaves which is the main place daisy's notation falls down and terms for flats and sharps Fi is Fa sharp for instance, while I think Solb goes to Se. When you modulate you get a nice indication that the new Do is the old Fa and off you go in the subdominant or whatever. Works well for those without perfect pitch as the intervals are always the same and you don't loose track of key / tonal centre which is one of many weaknesses to my sightsinging.

Lovely notation!

There is a more recent standardised ABC notation using upper and lowercases (and primes) for octaves and punctuation for rhythm- I know comparatively little about it, but it does seem to like everything transposed into C so would confuse me to have C always representing the tonic particularly if the tune modulated as I associate C with a fixed note more than Do.

*Excluding the Germans who seem to go for Fis and Ges and His and other really helpful things to try and sightread harp pedal changes from when you haven't prepared an orchestral part.

Totally incidentally does anyone know when or where Ut is used instead of Do- that one has been bothering me for years!

Dear erard.

Can't remember any detials about 'ut' but I seem to recall that there is a good chunk in the Oxford Companion to Music that mentioned it, under solfege, I think. If I have time over the next few days, I'll look it up. But I'm really busy at the mo...

Emma

A few years ago I trancribed the whole score of a musical play which someone had found from solfege into 'normal' notation.
I managed to work out most of the 'time' signs from looking at choir copies which had it written above the staves. The rest I learned from an article a choir member gave me.