Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In music, same as solmization.

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Examples

  • We articulate the notes we sing the better to distinguish them; hence the custom of sol-faing with certain syllables.

    Emile Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1745

  • French call "natural sol-faing;" it consists in removing the real meaning of things and putting in their place other meanings which only distract us.

    Emile Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1745

  • There is nothing more natural than sol-faing by transposition, when the scale is transposed.

    Emile Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1745

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