Shall we go through with this solfeggio once more?

Having finished her morning tea she went to the ballroom, which she particularly liked for its loud resonance, and began singing her solfeggio.

The selection began with Solfeggio, a work composed in 1963 when Pärt was an avant-gardist in the world of Soviet music.

"He might be practising a solfeggio," I suggested, "which you could sing for him." But this was not treating the buffo's voice with proper respect.