Sōl'mi-zā'tion, n.

n. [Fr. solmisation, from solmiser (equivalent to solfier, Sp. solfear, It. solfeggiare), from the musical notes sol, mi. See SOL-FA.] (Mus.) The act of sol-faing.

☞ This art was practiced by the Greeks; but the six syllables now in use are generally attributed to Guido d’Arezzo. These he selected on account of their furnishing all the alphabetic vowel sounds, from the following stanza of a monkish hymn to St. John the Baptist:—

Ut queant laxis Resonare fibris Mira gestorum Famuli tuorum Solve polluti Labii reatum. Eng. Cyc.