The 8th-Century Benedictine Monk Who Accidentally Invented Do-Re-Mi

The 8th-Century Benedictine Monk Who Accidentally Invented Do-Re-Mi

There are so many cool things that have come from Catholics! 🙌 This is just another example.You’ve probably heard the song from the musical The Sound of Music called “Do-Re-Mi” (“Do a deer, a female deer,” etc). That song is based on something called solfège, in which each note in a musical scale is given a word, namely do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, and then back to do.Where did this system come from? Well, it turns out, at least to the standard …