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Blog categoryGuides
Practical guides to writing, arranging, and sharing music in solfa or jianpu.
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Chinese music notation: jianpu, gongche and guqin tablature
Chinese sheet music is usually jianpu, but gongche characters and guqin tablature survive too. How to tell the three apart, and how do re mi is sung in Chinese.
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Choir warm-ups as a printable score, in solfa or jianpu
Describe a warm-up in plain words, or pick a preset, and DomiSol writes it as a solfa or jianpu score that climbs key by key, with syllables and a PDF.
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Most notation software assumes staff notation. Most of the world doesn't.
Solfa and jianpu are read by more musicians than staff notation, and almost no software treats them as first-class. Here's what that costs.
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Solmisasi: writing Indonesian not angka in DomiSol
Not angka is jianpu with four differences — beams above the number, Do = C, struck accidentals and si. DomiSol now writes all four, free.
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Guzheng notation in jianpu: fingering, techniques, ornaments
How guzheng music is written in jianpu: fingering characters 大食中名小, six technique marks and four ornaments, with an example and which marks sound on playback.
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An AI music assistant for choir directors
Meet DomiSol's in-editor AI assistant: ask in plain words and it harmonizes, transposes, composes, and arranges your choir's solfa or jianpu scores.
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