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sol.
(a loanword from Spanish)
Headword:
sol.
Principal English Translation:
a musical note
Attestations from sources in English:
Syllables, such as this one, that represent musical notes and are sung in European song are attested in a seventeenth-century Guatemalan music manuscript.
Some of the many syllables attested: ut, sol, re, mi, fa, and la. The are sometimes combined, suc as rol-re, re-sol, sol-ut, ut-sol, re-ut, ut-re, sol-re, and so on. We also see B mol as B mor.
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