Do-Re-Mi
Sign in to save"Do-Re-Mi" is an American show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. Each syllable of the musical solfège system appears in the song's lyrics, sung on the pitch it names. Rodgers was helped in its creation by long-time arranger Trude Rittmann who devised the extended vocal sequence in the song.
Key facts
- Song.name
- Do-Re-Mi
- Song.type
- Song
- Song.released
- 1959 in The Sound of Music
- Song.genre
- Show tune, Classical
- Song.composer
- Richard Rodgers
- Song.lyricist
- Oscar Hammerstein II
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Genre
- show tune
- Country of origin
- United States
- Composer
- Richard Rodgers
- Performer
- will.i.am
- Record label
- Interscope Records
- Lyrics by
- Oscar Hammerstein II
Show 3 more facts
- publication date
- 1961-00-00
- language of work or name
- English language
- single taken from the album or EP
- The Sound of Music (film)
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Background
- Word meanings
- Foreign language versions
- Austrian version with letters
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
"Do-Re-Mi" is an American show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. Each syllable of the musical solfège system appears in the song's lyrics, sung on the pitch it names. Rodgers was helped in its creation by long-time arranger Trude Rittmann who devised the extended vocal sequence in the song.
The tune finished at #88 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of the top tunes in American cinema in 2004.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Do-Re-Mi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.