So, here is the first entry and the awesome thing that created my awesome blogging blog : )! All the way from www.dictionary.com it's the definition of the word 'gamut' because the etymology is AMAZING! It actually tells us from whence "do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti...do!" comes from!!! Including the entire latin text of the original hymn! Definitely something I would always want to remember, and all because I want to use the word 'gamut' in my resume...'resume' being another example of not being able to use the 'accent ague'! I'm in a blogging blog spiral! What a great first entry! <3ALE<3
gam·ut
[gam-uh

–noun
1.
the entire scale or range: the gamut of dramatic emotionfrom grief to joy.
2.
Music .
a.
the whole series of recognized musical notes.
b.
the major scale.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME < ML; contr. of gamma ut, equiv. to gamma, used to represent the first or lowest tone (G) in the medieval scale+ ut (later do ); the notes of the scale ( ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si )being named from a Latin hymn to St. John the Baptist: Ut queantlaxis re sonare fibris. Mi ra gestorum fa muli tuorum, Sol ve polluti labii reatum, S ancte I ohannes
1425–75; late ME < ML; contr. of gamma ut, equiv. to gamma, used to represent the first or lowest tone (G) in the medieval scale+ ut (later do ); the notes of the scale ( ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si )being named from a Latin hymn to St. John the Baptist: Ut queantlaxis re sonare fibris. Mi ra gestorum fa muli tuorum, Sol ve polluti labii reatum, S ancte I ohannes
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