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movable-do system

noun
variants: or less commonly movable-doh system \¦⸗⸗⸗¦dō- \

Definition of movable-do system 

: a system of solfège in which the sol-fa syllables may be transposed to any key — compare fixed-do system

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1881, in the meaning defined above

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