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noun

ut

uut
noun
1
An old name for the first note of the musical scale, later replaced by "do" in solfège.
"In early solfège systems, singers began the scale on ut rather than do."

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In plain EnglishAn old musical syllable, the ancestor of "do" in "do-re-mi."

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Etymology

From Latin ut ("as, how"), the first word of a Latin hymn used to teach the musical scale by Guido of Arezzo.

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