The Collaborative International Dictionary
Solfeggio \Sol*feg"gio\, n.[It., fr. solfa the gamut.] (Mus.) The system of arranging the scale by the names do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, by which singing is taught; a singing exercise upon these syllables.
Wiktionary
n. (context music English) a method of sight singing music that uses the syllables ''do'' (originally ''ut''), ''re'', ''mi'', ''fa'', ''sol'' (or ''so''), ''la'', and ''si'' (or ''ti'') to represent the pitches of the scale, most commonly the major scale. The ''fixed-do'' system uses ''do'' for C, and the ''movable-do'' system uses ''do'' for whatever key the melody uses (thus B is ''do'' if the piece is in the key of B).
WordNet
n. singing using solfa syllables to denote the notes of the scale of C major [syn: solmization, solfege]
a voice exercise; singing scales or runs to the same syllable [syn: solfege]
[also: solfeggi (pl)]
Usage examples of "solfeggio".
Arrillaga was born in 1848 at Iolosa in the Province of Guipuzcoa, Spain, and at the age of ten began the study of music in the old Spanish fashion, with a solfeggio master who employed no instrumental accompaniment whatever.
It delights too much in comfortable solfeggios, in linked sweetness long drawn out, which soon palls on the senses.
It becomes its task to adapt itself to these new circumstances, to renounce the comfortable solfeggios and acquire the poetic expression that they accept.
There was the regular drilling for the church services, to be sure: solfeggi and psalms, psalms and solfeggi--always apt to degenerate, under a pedant, into the dreariest of mechanical routine.