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Tonic Sol-fa is an a cappella quartet from the Minneapolis–Saint Paul region. With a largely pop-music-oriented repertoire, their CDs have sold over 2,000,000 copies, [1] and the group has toured throughout the US and abroad. [citation needed]
Tonic sol-fa (or tonic sol-fah) is a pedagogical technique for teaching sight-singing, invented by Sarah Anna Glover (1786–1867) of Norwich, England and popularised by John Curwen, who adapted it from a number of earlier musical systems.
"Do-Re-Mi" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. Each syllable of the musical solfège system appears in the song's lyrics, sung on the pitch it names. Rodgers was helped in its creation by long-time arranger Trude Rittmann who devised the extended vocal sequence in the song.
Portrait of John Curwen by William Gush, circa 1857. John Curwen (14 November 1816 – 26 May 1880) was an English Congregationalist minister and diffuser of the tonic sol-fa system of music education created by Sarah Ann Glover.
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The Tonic Sol-Fa Reporter was a monthly music journal established by the London music publisher John Curwen in 1851. [1] Shortly after Curwen's death in 1880, his son, John Spencer Curwen, succeeded his father as managing editor in 1881. [ 2 ]
Then, fa, sol and la would be repeated to also stand for their modern counterparts, resulting in the scale being "fa, sol, la, fa, sol, la, mi, fa". The use of "fa", "sol" and "la" for two positions in the scale is a leftover from the Guidonian system of so-called "mutations" (i.e. changes of hexachord on a note, see Guidonian hand ).
Sol-fa may refer to: Sol-fa, a 2004 album by Asian Kung-Fu Generation; Solfège, a music education method; Tonic sol-fa, a method of teaching sight-singing; Tonic Sol-fa (a cappella group), a quartet from Minnesota