Why do some countries use cdfegab to name the musical notes and other countries use do re mi fa sol la si?

Question

What is the difference between the two names and why the difference?

Answer 1

Do re mi is called solfege. It refers to the relative notes of a scale, any scale, do being the first note, re the second, etc. It was mainly developed to help with sight singing.

In the C major scale (cdefgabc), c would be do, d would be re.

And contrary to the above post, "si" was changed to "ti" by someone whose name I've forgotten so that each note would begin with a different letter.

Answer 2

The Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, and Do are the diatonic names for the major scale. You mentioned Si after La, which is incorrect. It is Ti, the seventh note on the major scale. Si is the half-step above Sol.

C, D, F, E, G, A, and B refer to the names of the notes on a given scale, which include the names of designated major chords.

Added: The complete diatonic scale, which includes the half-steps, are do, di, re, ri, me or mi, fa, fi, sol, si, la, li, ti, and do. This has existed for at least 50 years.

Answer 3

It's not countries, they're two different things!!! I live in America, and I say do re me, etc. cdefgab are like the notes on the piano. You can use them when you're naming notes in music, but there is this thing called solfege, which is do re mi fa so la ti do. If you are reading music without the words (singing it), then instead of just saying la, la, la, for the notes, you sing "do" for c, "re''for d, and so forth ("do" is not always c, it depends on what key you're in. "do" could also be d or e, if you were in those keys). Singing do, re, mi sounds much better than saying c, d, e when you're singing!!

Answer 4

Do, Re, Mi....is called solfedge (It is used heavily in music education to teach students to sight read - especially with the Kodaly method:)
C,D,E,F...are the actual letter names of the notes on the given (Bass or Treble clef) staff.

Solfedge can be used in any key signature. In the "key of Cmajor" the note C will be called DO, where as in the key of "Gmajor" the note C will be called FA.
The actual letter name of the note does not change - but the Solfedge will change with the key signature. (Unless you use a fixed Do system and that's a whole other story!)

Answer 5

It's not different countries, they are interchangeable