Definition of Solfeggios

1. solfeggio [n] - See also: solfeggio

Lexicographical Neighbors of Solfeggios

soles
soleship
soleships
soleus
soleus muscle
soleuses
solfa
solfa syllable
solfanaria
solfatara
solfataras
solfege
solfeges
solfeggi
solfeggio
solfeggios (current term)
solferino
solferinos
solfrino cutter
solfrino cutters
solgel
soli
solicitant
solicitants
solicitate
solicitation
solicitations
solicited
solicitee

Literary usage of Solfeggios

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Famous Composers and Their Works by John Knowles Paine, Theodore Thomas, Karl Klauser (1891)
"We have only to read the many solfeggios that he wrote during the long years when he was director of the Conservatoire for competition among the pupils ..."

2. The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review by Richard Mackenzie Bacon (1825)
"... to which are added twelve solfeggios i composed by D. Crivelli. London. (For the Author,) by Cramer, Addison, and Beale. The readers of our miscellany ..."

3. The Art of Breathing as the Basis of Tone-production: ("the Old Italian by Leo Kofler (1890)
"How to Use Vocalises and solfeggios. Under vocalises the German school of ... solfeggios mean those studies that contain regular set pieces of music for ..."

4. Journal of the Society of Arts by Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1866)
"In the report on tho former work the committee says, these celebrated solfeggios havo been and still are tho basis of instruction in the Conservatoire, ..."

5. Dwight's Journal of Music by John Sullivan Dwight (1878)
"There are a large number of progressive vocal exercises and solfeggios furnished, instead of syllables, with easy, smooth Italian words ami phrases. ..."

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