0b: Brüderchen, komm tanz mit mir!

In the first act of the fairy tale opera "Hänsel und Gretel" by Engelbert Humperdinck Gretel asks her brother for a dance: "Brüderchen, komm tanz mit mir"

If you know the melody, try to play it correctly with the SolFa Mode-Go-Round. Start on the green segment (with scale degree 5). Hint: Click the #-Button or the b-Button until the melody sounds right.

Which syllable do we have to start with? In order to play the first 14 notes correctly there is only one correct Solmisation.

In order to play only the first 7 notes correctly, there are two correct solmisation possible.

The first and the 14th tone of the melody (dark green segment with scale degree 5) must have the syllable "so". The seventh tone of the melody (red segment with scale degree 1) is the tonic. To play only 7 tones correctly, you may alternatively start with the syllable "re".

In order to understand the connection between the correct, the half-correct, and the "wrong" versions, we may play dominoes with that melody. Recall that the dominoes have two halves, with numbers (or pictures) depicted on each half. Our musical dominoes are instances of the 14 tones = 7 tones + 7 tones of the "Brüderchen, komm tanz mit mir" - melody

In the classical dominoes the matching rule for putting two dominoes together is the incidence of that motive (number or picture) on the adjacent halves from the two dominoes. In our musical case the matching motives are sequences of tone syllables. The adjacent melodies don't have the same notes and pitches, but the have the same syllables. The act putting two dominoes together is a repetition of the generic melody (i.e. the same scale degrees) after the pressing of the flat button b.

In the subsequent videoclip we start the dominoes in the F-Ionian and stops in E-Ionian.