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Did you know that the basic scale in music today comes from Arabic syllables do, re, mi, fa, sol, la and ti? The Arabic alphabet for these notes is Dal-Ra-Mim-Fa-Sad-Lam-Sin.

and blatantly false. The Solfeggio system was created about the 100 by Guido De Arrezo and the syllables from from a hymn called 'Ut queant laxis'. That other cultures used other syllables for other notes has nothing to do with the system still in use today.
13 posted on 03/13/2006 12:30:34 PM PST by Borges
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'about the year 1000 AD'


15 posted on 03/13/2006 12:31:10 PM PST by Borges
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