sol : Idioms & Phrases

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sol hurok

  • noun United States impresario who was born in Russia (1888-1974)
    Solomon Hurok; Hurok.
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sol rojo

  • noun a small but violent terrorist organization formed in Ecuador in the early 1990s; responsible for bombing several government buildings
    Puka Inti; Red Sun.
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sol-fa

Sol`-fa" intransitive verb
Etymology
It. solfa the gamut, from the syllables fa, sol.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Sol-faed ;present participle & verbal noun Sol-faing
Definitions
  1. To sing the notes of the gamut, ascending or descending; as, do or ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do, or the same in reverse order.
    Yet can I neither solfe ne sing. Piers Plowman.
Sol"-fa" noun
Definitions
  1. The gamut, or musical scale. See Tonic sol-fa, under Tonic, n.
Webster 1913

Tonic sol-fa

  • (Mus.), the name of the most popular among letter systems of notation (at least in England), based on key relationship, and hence called "tonic." Instead of the five lines, clefs, signature, etc., of the usual notation, it employs letters and the syllables do, re, mi, etc., variously modified, with other simple signs of duration, of upper or lower octave, etc. See Sol-fa.
Webster 1913