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Italian "solfeggio" and English/French "solfège" derive from the names of two of the syllables used: sol and fa.[2] [3]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 solmisation, from the Latin solfège syllables sol and mi.
Solfeggietto (H 220, Wq. 117: 2) is a short solo keyboard piece in C minor composed in 1766 by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. [1] Although the Solfeggietto title is widely used today, according to Powers 2002, p. 232, the work is correctly called Solfeggio, but the author provides no evidence for this.
Minoja was a composer of opera and church-music. He composed two operas, which were performed successfully, Tito nelle Gallie (1787) and Zenobia (1788), a march and a funeral symphony on the death of General Hoche, having him received then a gold medal from Napoleon Bonaparte, [3] and four Quartets known by the title of I Divertimenti della Campagna.
He became widely known for his vocal exercises—solfeggi and vocalizzi—which are unusually attractive for works of their kind, and at the same time excellent for their special purpose. [2] Thomaidis and MacPherson describe them as 'lively' works in the Italian tradition of those times. [3] While in Paris he wrote three 'oratorios.'
Born in the Italian city of Seregno, Ettore Pozzoli began his career soon after he received his music diploma from the Milan Conservatory in 1895. While writing music for piano and orchestra, he started teaching at the Milan Conservatory.
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He was much loved as a teacher and orator. In England, a collection of "Solfeggi" from the best Italian vocal tradition was published. He composed sacred music, works for piano and chamber music. Vannuccini died in Bagni di Lucca at the age of 82. [3]
Two sources survive for his life and works: his only surviving work, a teaching-collection of music entitled Solfeggiamenti et ricercari a due voci (Lodovico Grignani, Rome 1642); and the inventory of printed works in the workshop of the Roman printer Sebastiano Testa.