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▪ I. si Mus.|siː|
[Cf. quots. 1850 and 1875. For various accounts as to the originator, see Grove Dict. Music and Littré.]
In solmization, the seventh note of the scale.
1728Chambers Cycl. s.v., Si, in Music, a Seventh Note, added within this Sixty Years, by one le Maire, to the Six ancient Notes. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XII. 545 note, A note which is a tone immediately above the tonic, as re in the mode of ut, and si in that of la, is termed a sub-tonic. 1850Helmore Plain-Song iv. 22 The syllable si for the seventh sound of our octave was in more recent times added, from the initial letters of the closing words, Sancte Iohannes. 1875Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms s.v. Notation, Here was a sa for the seventh note of the scale; but..it was not employed. In later use, in order to mark another semitone by the final i (as in mi) sa was turned into si.
▪ II. si
obs. pa. tense of see v. |