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What (besides being the names of the notes of the Western seven-tone musical scale) do these words stand for: “do,” “re,” “mi,” “fa,” “so,” “la,” “ti”? The words sound like nonsense syllables, but music history buffs will be interested to learn they were actually Latin mnemonics for components of the ancient “scale” of the organization of the cosmos: They were originally “do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si” and stood for: do = short for dominus, “the Lord God”; re = short for regina caelum, “the queen of heaven”; mi = “the micro-cosm” = “the Earth”; fa = fata, “the fates” = “the planets”; sol = “the Sun”; la = “the via lactea” = “the Milky Way”; si = sidera = “(all) the stars.”