Did I commit a Juilliard faux pas?

I *cannot believe* that Juilliard would want fixed do. That system essentially is the same as singing with the letter names of the notes - if C is ALWAYS going to be called *do*, there is NO correlation with scalar OR harmonic function. Movable do reflects the structure of music from the Common Practice period - anything *pre * that or *post* that, then all bets are off.

I betcha you just got someone with an attitude - or no clue. Can you find a course syllabus online, or even a short description? Any ideas of what they are selling in their bookstore? How about *software* that they use for sightsinging?

It should not be that hard to find a recent Juilliard graduate and ask THEM - so anybody out there that WENT to Juilliard and can help?

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Its nothing terribly odd. Sarah has a troll and she gets a lot of violations. I know how crazy that sounds, considering how she has never been rude or anything other than her usual sweet self. Its a damn shame that people do that to her! I love Sarah and hate that people do this to her!

Yeah, that sounds like typical conservatory elitism. Don't take it personally, just an elitist witch, if your niece has talent, then your undeserving faux pas shouldn't make any difference.

The lady was just a snob. Your question was reasonable.

My conservatory used fixed doh, which never made sense to me, for the reasons which Mamianka's already outlined. I dealt with it, but I always had a tendency to sing the tonic of any key as "doh".

You must hang your head in shame.

... or walk upright, because the clerk was dead wrong. I cannot imagine any reason to use a fixed do.

Latin-American, French, Spanish, and Italian musicians may try to give us a compelling reason why they use a fixed do.

The only thing fixed-Do is good for is churning out musicians with quasi perfect pitch. Don't worry about the clerk with a bad attitude!

I would say that is a "cold-shoulder" response. In my opinion, that is a reasonable question to ask.