Russian Tonic Sol-Fa names

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  • LeMartinPecheur
    Full Member
    • Apr 2007
    • 4717

    Russian Tonic Sol-Fa names

    Can some kind polymath please tell me the Russian Tonic Sol-Fa names, preferably in English transliteration?

    I'm particularly interested in La, for a reason involving DSCH's 5th symphony!
    I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!
  • Bryn
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    • Mar 2007
    • 24688

    #2
    Originally posted by LeMartinPecheur View Post
    Can some kind polymath please tell me the Russian Tonic Sol-Fa names, preferably in English transliteration?

    I'm particularly interested in La, for a reason involving DSCH's 5th symphony!


    Might help.

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    • greenilex
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      • Nov 2010
      • 1626

      #3
      What I think of as a serious lesson...

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      • vinteuil
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        • Nov 2010
        • 12843

        #4
        Originally posted by Bryn View Post


        Might help.
        ... interesting how it repeats itself - and then is in mirror-image - and then back.

        It seems that a transliteration of the Russian might be along the lines of -

        (do) re me fa sol lya si (do)


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        • LeMartinPecheur
          Full Member
          • Apr 2007
          • 4717

          #5
          Thanks Bryn and vints, that does help enormously.

          If you were wondering, I was checking out something I didn't fully catch in a talk, about repeated As in DSCH's 5th symphony being a link to his relationship in 1934-5 with one Elena Konstantinovskaya, subsequently Elena Karmen. The lya (A in C major)) links to 'Elena' while Karmen explains a number of overt and covert links of the symphony to that opera. Elisabeth Wilson's Shostakovich - A Life Remembered pp153-4 explains the Carmen links, but not the lya/A one.

          And yes, I know the symphony isn't in C
          I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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