In some the equivalent to sharp or flat is added after the name of the note (C sharp would thus be Do dièse in France and Belgium).
After "ti" comes "do" again, one octave higher than the previous "do." Notes outside the scale (sharps and flats) are expressed in different ways according to regions.
(Note: in some regions, such as Portugal, "ti" is called "si"). The major scale in solfege runs: do re mi fa sol la ti. In fact, in some countries such as Spain, Portugal, Italy and France, solfege is always used instead of note names. Solfege is one of the most common ways of expressing musical notes for vocalists. This is an inflexible system unlike the moveable-doh one used in English, where "Do" (or "Doh") can be any pitch. Some other countries don't use letters for notes at all, but instead the fixed-doh solfege system, where "Do" or "Ut" always means the note C. We will not concern ourselves with these differences as this alternate system is almost never encountered in English language texts. They do not use special letters for any other notes, however, for instance, what we call a C sharp they would call "Cis", "Ciss" or "Cís" (depending on the language), which literally means "C sharp". They also use the letter B, to mean the note we call B flat. However, Germany, Scandinavia (such as Iceland, Denmark, Sweden) and Slavic countries have another system: their C major scale is C D E F G A H. These are the letter names used in English, Dutch, and possibly a few other languages. You will learn about diatonic function later. Even more confusingly, E can be called D ("D double-sharp"), and D can be called E ("E double-flat")! For now, you need only know that a D and an E are enharmonically equivalent (that is, they have the same pitch, but serve a different diatonic function) in the simplified tuning most commonly used today. Notes can be sharpened or flattened between D and E comes a note called either D ("D sharp") or E ("E flat"). Letter names give a label to each letter of the C major scale: C D E F G A B.
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