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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.
The tune was first published in 1897 in the periodical Yr Athraw ('The Teacher'), vol. 71, in tonic sol-fa notation, and its first appearance in a hymnal was in 1900, in The Baptist Book of Praise. The famed English composer and music historian Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) referred to this as one of the greatest hymn tunes.
5 Selected hymns. 6 References. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... A Tonic Sol-fa Cantata. Advertiser and Chronicle Offices, 1880. ...
Some of the editions used tonic sol-fa notation. This was published in 1897, 1913, and 1936. 'Suffolk St' Christadelphian Hymn Book (1903), compiled by CJ Caldicott, J Bland, J Hawkins, HH Horsman, T Turner, W Potter, C Jones (Birmingham). Caldicott was a piano technician and wrote hymns such as We shall be like him. Caldicott made an appeal ...
Sacred Songs and Solos is a hymn collection compiled by Ira David Sankey, who partnered Dwight Lyman Moody in a series of evangelical crusades from 1870 until Moody's death in 1898. The collection first appeared in 1873, [ 1 ] and has subsequently been published in many editions and formats, expanding to a final volume of 1200 pieces that ...
Little Flock Tune Books have been published in 1883, 1904, 1932, 1954, 1965, and 1979. Charles Theodore Lambert's edition of 1932 published both words and tunes with an appendix "Containing a few hymns suitable for the Christian Household". It is still published in Tonic Sol-Fa by the Symington/Hales Depot.
David Jenkins (30 December 1848 – 10 December 1915) was a Welsh composer, best known for his choral works and hymn tunes. [1] Born at Trecastle near Brecon, Jenkins was apprenticed to a tailor at a young age, due to the death of his father. [1] He did not take an interest in music until he was nine years old.
Griffith Anthony (1846 – 13 June 1897) was a musician. He was born in Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, South Wales and worked at a Cwmbwrla's ironworks as a boy. [1] He studied a form of sight-singing called tonic sol-fa and then began to teach music in churches.