Important trends in domestic and community music making--advances in piano manufacturing, government-sponsored music training,
Tonic Sol-fa instruction, church music publishing, and oratorio performance--are pithily presented and judiciously related to the culture of "self-improvement and adult education" (p.
The developmental learning sequence would have described infants' classrooms where children were taught singing 'by ear'; as children grew older and progressed to higher classes, vocal music was taught using the
Tonic Sol-fa method, and in upper primary classrooms, children were taught to read vocal music from staff notation.
employed:
Tonic sol-fa (England), Curwen/ Glover hand signs (England),
Bm yn llwyddiannus, gyda nifer eraill, ym mhob un nes cyrraedd yr Intermediate - dyna'r olaf cyn y llythrennau ATSC mi gredaf (Associate of the
Tonic Sol-fa College) Bu dyfalbarhad Mrs Hughes, a hynny'n gwbl wirfoddol ar adeg digon anodd mae'n siwr, yn gaffaeliad mawr inni i gyd.
"It's a Singer!" And immediately sang down the scale in
tonic sol-fa: "Soh fah me ray doh...
Music and Victorian Philanthropy: the
Tonic Sol-fa Movement.
Her husband claimed he could write any tune in
tonic sol-fa, but one song he refused even to attempt, saying that 'She changes the doh in every verse' and that the air was full of quarter tones and glissandi.
The ability of a choir to promote a political aim is exemplified in an essay by Charles Maguire about John Curwen and his
Tonic Sol-fa Method used to teach singing and help advance the Temperance Movement in England during the second half of the nineteenth century.
To publicise his method, Curwen published his own writings in the
Tonic Sol-fa Reporter and Magazine of Vocal Music for the People, published a number of textbooks and songbooks and with his son in London created both the
Tonic Sol-fa College (with certificates and diplomas) and J.
A later, important example is the
Tonic Sol-fa method of John Curwen, based on just intonation, that was a great popular and musical success in training choral singers throughout the British Empire in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Tonic Sol-Fa notation" (ibid), or any combination of these.