do re mi anime lullaby

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Join birdie friends Do, Re and Mi in the musical world of Beebopsburgh, an island where instruments grow in the Falsetto Forest and a giant Music Mountain towers above all their adventures. Discover the sounds and melodies, move to the beat and see how music helps solve any problem.

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Overview

"Do-Re-Mi" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. Each syllable of the musical solfège system appears in the song's lyrics, sung on the pitch it names. Rodgers was helped in its creation by long-time arranger Trude Rittmann who devised the extended vocal sequence in the song.
The tune finished at #88 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of the top tunes in American cine…

Background

Within the story of The Sound of Music, it is used by the governess Maria to teach the solfège of the major musical scale to the Von Trapp children, who learn to sing for the first time. According to assistant conductor Peter Howard, the heart of the number – in which governess Maria assigns a musical tone to each child, like so many Swiss bell ringers – was devised in rehearsal by Rittmann (who was credited for choral arrangements) and choreographer Joe Layton. The fourteen note a…

Word meanings

(For the actual origins of the solfège, refer to Solfège.)
The lyrics teach the solfège syllables by linking them with English homophones (or near-homophones):
1. Doe: a deer, a female deer, alludes to the first solfège syllable, do.
2. Ray: a drop of golden sun [i.e., a narrow beam of light or other radiant energy], alludes to the second solfège syllable, re.

Foreign language versions

Since the song features wordplay with English words that sound like the solfège syllables, foreign versions of the song do not translate the English lyrics. Instead, they use the local solfège and associate each syllable with a meaning in the native language. In most countries, the note B is represented by si instead of ti.
When The Sound of Music was translated to German in 2005 for the Vienna Volksoper, the song …

External links

• "Do-Re-Mi" - THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) on YouTube, Rodgers and Hammerstein