Do-Re-Mi
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- This article is about the song from The Sound of Music. For the syllables of the major scale, see solfege.
The song soon became popular in its own right. It is often sung in day care centers. It is also often one of the first songs that children will learn to play on simple children's instruments that have only the eight notes of one octave of the major C to C scale. In The Sound of Music, it was transposed from C to B-flat.
Word meanings
Do refers to Doe, defined as the female of a deer or related animal
Re refers to Ray, defined as a thin line or narrow beam of light or other radiant energy.
Mi refers to Me, the objective pronoun referring to the speaker.
Fa refers to Far, defined as to or at the most distant or remote point.
So refers to Sew, to work with a needle and thread or with a sewing machine
La is the note that follows so.
Ti refers to Tea, an aromatic, slightly bitter beverage made by steeping tea leaves in boiling water
Trivia
- The song was parodied in The Simpsons episode Bart Gets an Elephant. In one scene Homer drives his car against the statue of a deer, whereupon Homer shouts: "D'oh", followed by Lisa: "A deer!" and then Marge who concludes: "A female deer."
- The Kids in the Hall perform the song in a sketch from their fourth season: Mark McKinney meets a boy who lost his dog, and the Kids sing the song to cheer him up.
See also
- The alphabet song, which is used to learn the order of the letters in the alphabetical order, just like Do-Re-Mi is used to learn the order of the notes in the solfege scale.
- Musical scale
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