Meaning & use

Te

noun·Academic

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The seventh note of a major musical scale in solfège (movable-do) notation.

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The choir practiced singing do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, te, do up and down the scale.

She sang the final 'te' just below the octave before resolving to 'do.'

A note on using this word

In the original Italian solfège system the note is called 'si'; 'te' was introduced later so that every syllable would begin with a different letter.

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