fa

Etymology

From Latin famuli, from the first word of the fourth line of Ut queant laxis, the medieval hymn which solfège was based on because its lines started on each note of the scale successively.

noun

  1. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note of a major scale.

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