SOLMIZATION noun (sol-muh-zey-shuhn)

noun
1. Music. the act, process, or system of using certain syllables, especially the sol-fa syllables, to represent the tones of the scale.


Quotes

The pupil seems to gain the knowledge of intervals with the power of making them. But surely it would facilitate the labour were the knowledge of distances first instilled by means of solmization.
--*"On Reading Music," The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review, Vol. IX, 1827


Guido has been properly called the father of modern music, and the title is richly deserved for in addition to the so-called Guido scale, or hexachord, or solmization--or whatever you call his do-re-mi, plan or fancy--he also invented the staff lines and intervals in music, and many other methods of teaching music in use to this very day.
--*"Monk Started Guido Scale 900 Years Ago in Italy," The Reading Eagle, November 14, 1965



Origin

Solmization comes from French solmization, a derivative of solmiser “to (sing) sol-fa.” The system of solmization is attributed to Guido of Arezzo (c995-1049), a Benedictine monk from Arezzo, Tuscany, who also invented the staff notation used in Western music. Solmization entered English in the 18th century.