Editing Musical note (section)

==== System "do–re–mi–fa–sol–la–si" ====

In Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Romanian, Greek, Albanian, Russian, Mongolian, Flemish, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Turkish and Vietnamese the note names are ''do–re–mi–fa–sol–la–si'' rather than '''C–D–E–F–G–A–B'''. These names follow the original names reputedly given by [[Guido d'Arezzo]], who had taken them from the first syllables of the first six musical phrases of a [[Gregorian chant]] melody ''[[Ut queant laxis]]'', whose successive lines began on the appropriate scale degrees. These became the basis of the [[solfège]] system. For ease of singing, the name ''ut'' was largely replaced by ''do'' (most likely from the beginning of ''Dominus'', "Lord"), though ''ut'' is still used in some places. It was the Italian musicologist and humanist [[Giovanni Battista Doni]] (1595–1647) who successfully promoted renaming the name of the note from ''ut'' to ''do''. For the seventh degree, the name ''si'' (from ''Sancte Iohannes'', [[John the Baptist|St.&nbsp;John]], to whom the hymn is dedicated), though in some regions the seventh is named ''ti'' (again, easier to pronounce while singing).{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}