What is Solfege?

Solfege is a method of teaching Western music that covers pitch recognition, sight reading, and sight singing. In a narrower sense, it means sight-singing — reading sheet music and singing it at the correct pitch using sol-fa syllables (do, re, mi...).

Sol-fa syllables originate from a Latin hymn (Ut queant laxis) and are used today to express scale degrees or note names. See Types of Solfege for the different systems.