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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.
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.
By the end of the nineteenth century, this notation was very widespread in Britain, and it became standard practice to sell sheet music (for popular songs) with the tonic sol-fa notation included. Some of the roots of tonic sol-fa may be found in items such as: the use of syllables in the 11th century by the monk Guido de Arezzo; the cipher ...
19th-century, American, minstrel music, popular music, war songs: 29,000 American popular music spanning the years 1780–1980. Johns Hopkins University: Library and Archives Canada: Sheet Music From Canada's Past: Canadian, popular music: 20,000 Patriotic and parlour songs, piano pieces, sacred music, and novelty numbers published from before ...
This book includes all the songs Henry had published in the Northern Constitution from 17 November 1923 to 28 July 1928 (H1 to H246), and from 28 October 1932 to 9 December 1939 (H464 to H836), [1]: 522–531 with all the songs' tunes transcribed from tonic sol-fa to standard staff notation, [1]: xxxii–xxxvi plus extensive appendices, indexes ...
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.
James Churchill Fisher ( 22 March 1826 – 22 March 1891), generally known as J. C. Fisher or J. Churchill Fisher was an Australian singing teacher and composer. He is best known as an advocate of the Tonic Sol-fa system of music teaching, and was responsible for the system's introduction to Australia.
A Book in which the Poems, Songs and Ditties of the Scottish Gaels are exhibited along with their Airs, etc. [Staff and tonic sol-fa notation. Stirling: E. Mackay, 1908, etc., [4] A Lament for Nurse Cavell. [Song.] Words by M. Maclean. Melody and Gaelic words by M. Macfarlane. Edited and arranged by A. W. Marchant. Stirling: E. Mackay, [1917]. [4]