Pronunciation: Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si?

Pronunciation: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti (si in Chinese)

Jiumu notation refers to a simple notation method. The basic symbol representing the pitch of a sound is marked with seven Alapat numbers.

It originated in France in the 18th century, and was later improved by the Germans and became what it is today. Generally speaking, simplified musical notation refers to digital musical notation. The numerical musical notation is based on the movable solfa method, using 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 to represent the seven basic levels of the scale.

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The origin of simplified musical notation:

The prototype of digital musical notation first appeared in Europe in the 16th century. At that time, there was a Catholic monk named Su Eddie; he used 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 to represent the seven tones to compose teaching songs, and then wrote a booklet called "A New Way to Learn Plain Songs and Music". At that time, Westerners attached great importance to personal achievements such as invention, creation and copyright, and this was recorded in the annals of history.

In the 18th century, a Frenchman named Rousseau read a paper "Proposal for New Musical Notation" to the Academy of Sciences in Paris, France, in 1742, and mentioned this "digital simplified notation" again. After the mid-18th century, a group of French musicians, doctors, mathematicians, etc. organized and perfected the "numerical musical notation".

In the 19th century, after the continuous improvement and promotion of P. Garland, A. Paris and E.J.M. Scheve, it was widely used among the masses. Therefore, this kind of simplified notation is called "Jia-Pa-Xie's notation" in the West.

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, "New Schools" emerged in China. The "School Music and Songs" class directly imitated Japanese music education and also followed the Japanese practice of using simplified musical notation. Singing classes are offered in many primary and secondary schools. Most of the singing teaching materials at that time were Japanese songs with lyrics written by Chinese music teachers, including five-line notation and simplified notation. It was probably at this time that simplified musical notation was introduced to my country from Japan.

In 1903, Zeng Zhimin, who studied at the Tokyo Music School in Japan, published the article "Music Theory in General" in the sixth and seventh issues of the Chinese magazine "Jiangsu" edited and published by the Jiangsu Association in Japan to introduce Western music theory knowledge. Six songs including "Training Soldiers" and "Spring Outing" were published in the form of comparing simplified musical notation with five-line musical notation. This is considered to be the earliest record of Chinese people using simplified musical notation.

Modern music educator Shen Xingong was also one of the earliest disseminators of simplified musical notation. The "School Singing Collection" he edited was published in 1904 and became the first collection of simplified musical notation published and popular in China. From then on, simplified musical notation gradually spread to schools everywhere.

Due to its simplicity, ease of learning and printing, simplified musical notation played a great role in the dissemination of songs during the Chinese anti-Japanese and national salvation mass singing movement that emerged in the 1990s. At the same time, the simplified musical notation itself has been further improved and popularized.

Another reason why simplified musical notation has become widely popular in China is that the notation method of simplified musical notation is very close to Gongchipu, a type of written musical notation popular among Chinese people. For example, Gongchipu uses the characters "Shangchi Gongfan Liuwuyi" and different radicals attached to the left side of the characters to indicate the pitch of the sound, while simplified musical notation uses seven Arabic numerals and appended above or below the number. dots to represent the pitch of the sound.

Gongchipu uses the flat-eye symbol attached to the right side of the character to indicate the length of the sound, while simplified musical notation uses the short horizontal line attached to the right or below the Arabic numeral to indicate the length of the sound. Simplified music notation is so similar to Gongchi Pu, and the method of recording the pitch and length of sounds in Simplified music notation is simpler and more accurate than Gongchi Pu. Therefore, Chinese people accept Simplified music notation very easily.

On a global scale, China is the country that has absorbed simplified musical notation the best and has carried it forward. There is no country in the world where simplified musical notation is as popular as China.

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