Finally, AI has some practical use

https://chatgpt.com/ | 04/18/2026 | ChatGPT

[CharlesOConnell]

Q. For the common chromatic enharmonic letter names inclusive of all common, non-double accidental C-Cb note names, give their solfeggio English equivalents.
The first set, to be emulated in solfeggio variants:
Array count: 21
C-C#-Db-D-D#-Eb_E-E#-Fb-F-F#-Gb-G-G#-Ab-A-A#-Bb-B-B#-Cb.

(Cb → Da)
C → Do
C# → Di
Db → Ra
D → Re
D# → Ri
Eb → Me
E → Mi
E# → Ma
Fb → Me
F → Fa
F# → Fi
Gb → Se
G → Sol
G# → Si
Ab → Le
A → La
A# → Li
Bb → Te
B → Ti
B# → Ta
Cb → Da

What would be the use of such a thing? Solfeggio is the alphabet of melody. It is in The Sound of Music, "Doe, a dear, a female dear". Mexican music, very traditional going back to Spanish colonial times especially in the highly educated Mariachi tradition, uses solfeggio not only for singing but for chord names and, I believe, even for keys.

This application is because there is a much beloved, traditional song, which, however, relies upon the orchestral music of the New World Symphony, which in the Largo movement, was rendered with the lyrics "Going Home", as in "The Snake Pit" with Olivia de Haviland. The initial chords are very difficult, in the difficult key, Db, doubly difficult initial and ending chords. Solgeggio is used to directly communicate with singers, what simplified scale tones they should use for the lyrics, "Home, home, home, home, I'm going home.

https://1000-good-songs.org/p/1262

I still had to perform corrections on AI's results, because its only real job is to make you feel stupid, the way the media's real job is to get you believe lies, not to give you actual education or information, in the case of computers, because they can't do anything except Garbage-in-Garbage-Out, in the case of university "educationists" who set curricula and textbooks because, having given up a traditional liberal arts education intended to form good people and enable them to independently discover their life paths, the schools have given that all up, they don't have liberal arts education, only specialized training in taking placement tests to be able to take more placement tests, make good compliant zombie employees of giant corporations and mindless consumers of next season's fashions.

The actual rule for Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti-Do is, the flat tone has an appended "a", the natural tone has no appendage, the sharp tone has an appended "i". AI failed in those details about 20% of the time.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: solfeggio

[CharlesOConnell]

AI gets snotty arguing with a real human.

Question: Check me for errors in my correction of your first response, on the rule
For Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti-Do is,
the flat tone generally has an appended "a",
the natural tone has no appendage, the sharp tone generally has an appended "i"

(Cb → Da)
C → Do
C# → Di
Db → Ra
D → Re
D# → Ri
Eb → Me
E → Mi
E# → Ma
Fb → Me
F → Fa
F# → Fi
Gb → Se
G → Sol
G# → Si
Ab → Le
A → La
A# → Li
Bb → Te
B → Ti
B# → Ta
Cb → Da

Reply: Your correction contains errors.

The main problem is that your stated rule is too broad. In common chromatic movable-Do solfège, it is true that sharps generally take i and flats generally take a, but there are important standard exceptions. The established English chromatic syllables are not formed by a perfectly mechanical rule.

Correct standard forms:

Cb → Ti
C  → Do
C# → Di
Db → Ra
D  → Re
D# → Ri
Eb → Me
E  → Mi
E# → Fa
Fb → Me
F  → Fa
F# → Fi
Gb → Se
G  → Sol
G# → Si
Ab → Le
A  → La
A# → Li
Bb → Te
B  → Ti
B# → Do

Your specific errors were these:

• Cb → Da is incorrect. It should be Cb → Ti.
• E# → Ma is incorrect. It should be E# → Fa.
• B# → Ta is incorrect. It should be B# → Do.
• You listed Cb → Da twice.

Why those three are exceptions:

• E# is enharmonically the pitch F, and in standard chromatic solfège it is sung as Fa, not Ma.
• B# is enharmonically the pitch C, and in standard chromatic solfège it is sung as Do, not Ta.
• Cb is enharmonically the pitch B, and in standard chromatic solfège it is sung as Ti, not Da.

So your list is correct except for Cb, E#, and B#.

I've run out of patience arguing with the latest whiz-bang version of what my mother used to call in the t.v. age, "the idiot box".

[CharlesOConnell]

Definitely maybe.

[DoodleBob]

Sort of related, extensive chord progressions make great passwords.

C-C#-Db-D-D#-Eb_E-E#-Fb-F-F#-Gb-G-G#-Ab-A-A#-Bb-B-B#-Cb

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Every Good Boy Deserves Fun.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Doe, a queer, a female queer.

[The Duke]

Computer nerd say ... "Huh?"

[doorgunner69]

And I was tone deaf before my hearing took a dump.

This is so much gibberish now.

[KarlInOhio]

Now do it with a quarter tone scale where you have a note between C and C#.

[ggrrrrr23456]

LOL, indeed. What new information are we receiving here from the AI gods?

[HIDEK6]

I think AI’s solution won’t work with a moveable DO.

The human version will, though.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

The Idiot Box!

Yessssssss!

Mom had another box we used many times each day

The Ice Box! (refrigerator for those of you in Rio Linda)

[Norski]

Intense complex harmony type music for your ears.

Home In The Heavens 3:43

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on7VPe_SG7s&list=RDon7VPe_SG7s&start_radio=1

[TalBlack]

“Look, man, can ya’ hum a few bars”?…Glen Campbell

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Sort of related, extensive chord progressions make great passwords.
C-C#-Db-D-D#-Eb_E-E#-Fb-F-F#-Gb-G-G#-Ab-A-A#-Bb-B-B#-Cb

The example you gave would be a disaster for bitcoin password protection.

Your "chords" are only the 12 notes that make up an octave and a modern fast computer could break the code in seconds. Instead, make use of the at least three-note 2,341 unique playable chords and the total possibilites are effectively endless.

[trebb]

Mary’s Violet Eyes Make John Stay Up Nights, Period

or, for resistor codes: “Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Violet Gives Willingly”