Third solfège tone
Mi is the third note of the musical scale in solfège, the system where syllables represent pitches: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti.
It gained widespread recognition from the song "Do-Re-Mi" in *The Sound of Music*: Mi, a name I call myself.
In fixed-do systems, mi always refers to the note E. (Capitalized MI is the postal abbreviation for Michigan.)
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Third solfège tone
Mi is the third note of the musical scale in solfège, the system where syllables represent pitches: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti.
It gained widespread recognition from the song "Do-Re-Mi" in *The Sound of Music*: Mi, a name I call myself.
In fixed-do systems, mi always refers to the note E. (Capitalized MI is the postal abbreviation for Michigan.)
1. note — do, Perform an action; re (Concerning, in correspondence); fa (Fourth scale tone); sol (Fifth scale degree); la · ti · solfege · scale · pitch · tone · octave · sharp · flat · natural
gold mine (Excavation for precious ore); land mine (Buried pressure-activated explosive); be mine (Romantic possession request); not mine (Belonging to someone else); coal mine (Underground fuel extraction site); friend of mine (Person I'm close to)
abbreviations: Mr, Mrs, Ms, Dr, Jr; palabras espanolas: yo, el, nosotros, ellos, te; music fundamentals: do, re, fa, sol, la; musical notes: A, B, C, D, E; phonetic words: do, re, fa, sol, la; scale degrees: tonic, dominant, mediant, subdominant, leading tone
mine, emit, amigo, remiss, amiss, amity, milord
Word data: Linguabase (CC0) · www.idea.org/words/mi