It's the Word of the Day podcast for June 16th.

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Today's word is gamut, spelled G-A-M-U-T. Gamut is a noun. A gamut is a range or series of related things. When we say that something runs the gamut, we are saying that it encompasses an entire range of related things. When we say that something runs the gamut, we are saying that it encompasses an entire

range of related things. Here's the word used, and a sentence from Coast Weekend. She brings a certain

geneseecois to the production, with themes running the gamut from circuses and rodeos to mermaids and

pirates.

With the song Do Remi, the 1965 musical film, The Sound of Music, adapted from the 1958 stage musical by Rogers and Hammerstein, introduced millions of non-musicians to Solfège,

the singing of the solfa symbols, Do-Rémy-Fa-Solati, to teach the tones of a musical scale.

Centuries earlier, however, the Doe in Do-R-R-Me was known as U-T, spelled U-T.

Indeed, the first note of the scale of Guido de Retzot, an 11th-century musician and monk,

who had his own way of applying syllables to musical tones, was Ute.

De Retzot also called the first line of his bass staff, Gamma,

which meant that Gamma Ut was the term for a note written on the first staff line.

In time, Gamma-Ut underwent a shortening to gamut,

and later its meaning expanded to cover all the notes of Durezzo's scale,

then to cover all the notes in the range of an instrument,

and eventually to cover an entire range of any sort.

With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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