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For music written in, or including, Tonic Sol-Fa notation. This system was devised (after the ancient Guidonian gamut) by Sarah Glover of Norwich, and adapted and popularized by John Curwen in the mid-nineteenth century. Rather than using a stave, clefs and noteheads, Tonic Sol-Fa uses the initial letters of the solfege scale, thus d r m f s l t (for Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti), with various signs for changes in octave, length of note, modulation to a different key, etc. Because the system uses nothing more complex than normal text type, it had the advantage of being vastly cheaper to print than engraved or typeset music. Often music was printed in standard notation with tonic sol-fa above or beneath. Today, the system remains in use (mainly in the context of Protestant Christian music), in Scotland, Wales, South Africa, the Philippines and several other areas.
External Links
Wikipedia article
Wikichorus, the open sol-fa songbook
sol2snd a tonic sol-fa notation program.
Video of Treorchy Male Choir singing from tonic sol-fa notation, with explanation in Welsh (John Haydn Davies, 1975).
Pages in category "Tonic Sol-fa notation"
The following 72 pages are in this category, out of 72 total.
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Addoliad (Lloyd, John Ambrose)
Amagama Okuhlabelela: Zulu Hymnal (Various)
The American Sacred Songster (Phillips, Philip)
Anthem Treasures (Various)
Ave Maria (Smart, Henry Thomas)
Ave Sanctissima (Smith, Robert Archibald)B
Babylon (Nicholds, Joseph)
The Beatitudes (Akpabio, Progress Gabriel)
The Brass Band Book for Tonic Sol-Fa Pupils (Curwen, John)
By the Waters of Babylon (Crampton, Thomas)C
Caller Herrin' (Gow, Nathaniel)
Camp Fire Song Book (Various)
Ceol na nGaedheal (Hardebeck, Carl G.)
Christ's Birth Carols (Akpabio, Progress Gabriel)
The Church Hymnary (Stainer, John)
The Church Praise Book (Various)
A Collection of Orchestral Scores (Curwen, John)
Cor y Plant (Various)D
The Diver (Loder, Edward James)E
The Enchanted Palace (Somervell, Arthur)
English Minstrelsie (Baring-Gould, Sabine)
1000 Exercises (Somervell, Arthur)F
Faint not, fear not, God is near thee (Smart, Henry Thomas)
Folk Songs for Schools (Sharp, Cecil)
Fred Fannakapan (Low, Reg)
The Free Church Hymn Book with Tunes (Various)G
Gaelic Psalmody (Folk Songs, Scottish)
God Will Make a Way (Akpabio, Progress Gabriel)H
How to Observe Harmony (Curwen, John)
Hymnal of the Presbyterian Church in Canada (Various)I
I Love My Motherland (Various)
The Idea (Holst, Gustav)K
King Thrushbeard (Somervell, Arthur)
The Knave of Hearts (Somervell, Arthur)L
Lewis Bridal Song (Bannerman, John R.)
Llawlyfr Moliant (Roberts, John Henry)L cont.
Llyfr Canu Cynnulleidfaol (Various)
Llyfr Gweddi Cerddorol (Various)M
Mary of Argyle (Nelson, Sydney)
Messiah, HWV 56 (Handel, George Frideric)
6 Metrical Psalm Tunes, Op.91 (Mansfield, Purcell James)
Musical Theory (Curwen, John)N
Negro Folk Singing-Games and Folk Games of the Habitants (Porter, Grace Cleveland)O
O be joyful in the Lord (Lloyd, John Ambrose)
Old Christmas Carols of the Southern Counties (Gillington, Alice E.)P
Physical Exercises, Dances and Games in the Infant School (Hughes, Margaret Alexander)
The Psalter (Stewart, Robert Prescott)R
The Reed Band Book for Tonic Sol-Fa Pupils (Curwen, John)
Rodelinda, regina de' Longobardi, HWV 19 (Handel, George Frideric)S
S. Giovanni Battista, G.3.3 (Stradella, Alessandro)
Scheme for Rendering Psalmody Congregational (Glover, Sarah)
The School Music Teacher (Evans, John)
50 Selected Songs of Burns (Folk Songs, Scottish)
The Shropshire Song Book (Various)
70 Solfeggi (Marshall, Florence)
Songs and Tunes for Education (Curwen, John)
Songs in Sol-Fa (Various)
The Songs of Burns (Lees, John Kenyon)
Songs of the Isles (Roberton, Hugh S.)
The Standard Course of Lessons and Exercises in the Tonic Sol-fa Method (Curwen, John)
Studies in Worship Music (Curwen, John Spencer)T
Te Deum in D major, HWV 283 (Handel, George Frideric)
The Teacher's Handbook of the Tonic Sol-Fa System (Cringan, Alexander Thom)
The Templar's Book of Harmony and Song (Leslie, Henry Temple)
Text Book of Harmony (Oakey, George)
There's a Good Time Coming (Jackson, Nelson)
Tonic Sol-Fa (Curwen, John)
The Tonic Sol-Fa Music Course for Schools (Batchellor, Daniel)
The Tonic Sol-Fa Music Reader (Various)U
Uist Tramping Song (Bannerman, John R.)V
Vital Spark of Heav'nly Flame (Harwood, Edward)W
When the Weaker Sex are Stronger (Leo, Frank)
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