If you asked a cross-section of the UK population whether they knew solfège, the vast majority of them would say no. But start singing the words ‘Doe, a deer, a female deer’, and it’s a safe bet that ...
Solmization, the practice of assigning syllables to the different “steps” of the musical scale, originated in ancient India. Fast forward a few thousand years to 6th-century Spain, when Isidore, the ...