A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Re

by George Grove

RE. The second note of the natural scale in solmisation and in the nomenclature of France and Italy, as Ut (or Do) is the first, Mi the third, and Fa the fourth—

Ut queant laxis resonare fibris
Mira gestorum, famuli tuorum.

By the Germans and English it is called D.

The number of double vibrations per second for D is —; Paris diapason 580.7; London Philharmonic pitch 606.2.

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