solfège, laundromat /launderette

Why Laundromats Are the Hot New Place to Hang Out in Hong Kong

By MARY HUI

Apartments are getting smaller as the prices for them rise. That means no space for washers and dryers. And now there is a proliferation of laundromats.

English

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laundromat

ˈlɔːndrəmat/

noun

NORTH AMERICANtrademark in US

1. a launderette.

 [ C ] us ​ /ˈlɔn·drəˌmæt, ˈlɑn-/ trademark. the name of a place where the public may wash and dry their clothes in machines that operate when coins are put in them. (Definition of “Laundromat” from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

 solfège

Etymology[edit]


Italian "solfeggio" and English/French "solfège" derive from the names of two of the syllables used: sol and fa.[3][4]

The generic term "solmization", referring to any system of denoting pitches of a musical scale by syllables, including those used in India and Japan as well as solfège, comes from French solmisatio, from the Latin solfège syllables sol and mi.^[5]

The verb "to sol-fa" means to sing a passage in solfège.^[6]

唱名（solfège，法語發音：[sɔl.fɛʒ]；solfeggio，義大利語發音：[sɔl.fɛd͡ʒio]）是用來教授音高和視唱的音樂教育方法。有助於演唱者區分音程，並加強對樂理的理解。它是一種階名唱法，而這兩個表達方式實際上常被混用。

西方唱名[編輯]

學習唱名涉及到一系列音節，在英語國家通常是do（音調唱名法中的doh）、^[1] re、mi、fa、sol（音調唱名法中的so ）、la、ti/si。

唱名有首調唱名法與固定唱名法兩種。

• 首調唱名法：將當前調的主音唱成 do。
• 絕對唱名法：將 do，re，mi，fa，sol，la，si 與 C，D，E，F，G，A，B 一一對應。無論哪個調，唱名都是絕對的。