Using Sol-fa

[grappa123]

Hi,

New to the forum so hello.

Appreciate a bit of guidance in using the above to train relative pitch. I understand the moveable do system and the interval names for the major scale and hence naming those intervals is easy. What do I do however when I am presented with say minor 3rds, 7th's or tritones. Likewise how do I handle descending intervals?

Appreciate the help.

Regards,

Simon

[Quentin]

Hi,
Perhaps this is what you are looking for: http://blog.fixyourmix.com/2009/solfege ... ion-chart/

[grappa123]

Thanks for the link that's perfect.

My only outstanding query is what to do when working on descending intervals;
Lets say I'm working on a Perfect 5th down should I start on 'do' and go down to 'fa' i.e. always work with the first note as the tonic?

Thanks,

Si

[Quentin]

The main advantage of solfege is that the tone names are always relative to a key, which makes it easy to transpose any piece of music and keep the nomenclature intact. If you are in the key of C Major, and you must sing a descending interval (f. ex. a Major 3rd) with C as the first tone (the higher pitch), then the interval will start with Do. If the interval is sung outside of a tonal context, then the solfege syllable of the starting note could/may be anything.

When using solfege (sol-fa) in EarMaster, you are always given the key and the name of the first note, so these considerations are not an issue.

[Minnesota_Ray]

It seems that in EarMaster 6 interval training, with the "Exercise Settings / Tone Naming / Moveable Do" option selected, the solfege names do not respect the key signature, even though key signatures are displayed on the musical staff. Instead, the first note of an ascending or descending interval (or the lower note of a harmonic interval) is always displayed as "Do". For example, with the key signature of two sharps (D major, assuming a major key), a fist note of G is displayed as "Do" even though it would be "Fa" in the key of D Major. It would make more sense to either (1) display this note as "Fa" relative to key signature or (2) not use key signatures in this exercise when the moveable Do option is selected. In alternative (2), the starting note could always be "Do", and its exact pitch (if it did not occur in the C Major scale) could be shown using a accidental on the key-signature-less musical staff.

[Hans]

You are right, this is a bug. EarMaster was not supposed to show the key signature on the staff in that situation. We will fix this with the next update.

Best regards,
Hans Jakobsen
EarMaster