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▪ I. ut, n. Mus.|ʊt, ʌt|
[L. ut ‘that’: see note on gamut. Cf. F., Sp., Pg., and It. ut.]
The first note in Guido's hexachords, and of the octave in modern solmization, now commonly do n.2; the note C in the natural scale of C major.
Cf. also effaut, gamut, G-sol-re-ut.
c1325in Rel. Ant. I. 292 Sol and ut and la. c1550Armonye of Byrdes 185 in Hazl. E.P.P. III. 194 Chaungyng their key From ut to rey. 1596Bathe Brief Introd. A v b, The next thing necessary to be knowne for the right naming of notes, is the place where that note standeth which is named Ut. 1645–[see mi n.]. c1656Lovelace To T. S. iv, Poems (1904) 172 But yet the Spoaks by which they scal'd so high, Gamble hath wisely laid of Ut Re Mi. 1754–[see do n.2]. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XII. 547/2 From the adjuncts of the mode, that is to say, the modes of its two fifths, which for ut are fa and sol. 1801Busby Dict. Mus. s.v., Ut and do are always the tonic, or key-note, of the major-mode, and the..third of the minor mode. 1890[see fa].
b. ut, re etc.: the notes of the gamut; also transf., the ‘gamut’ or elements of something.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. iv. ii. 102 Olde Mantuan, Who vnderstandeth thee not loues thee not, vt re sol la mi fa. 1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. ii. i, Your courtier elementary, is..as it were in the alphabet, or ut-re-mi-fa-sol-la of courtship. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Note, Of the seven musical Notes, ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, the first six are ascribed to Aretine.
▪ II. ut, utal
obs. ff. out adv., udal. |