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	musical notation - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about musical notation
		Tonic sol-fa notation is based on the old syllabic system of Do (Ut), Re, Mi, and so on, and takes the following form: d, r, m, f, s, l, t, the names of the notes being Doh, Ray, Me, Fah, Soh, Lah, Te.
		If the piece modulates to another key, a change is indicated, so that, for instance, d may become temporarily any other note of the scale; but in major keys it will always remain the tonic, in whatever key the music moves, s always the dominant, and f always the sub-dominant.
		Its great defect is that it is insufficient for any general study of music as an art and that it is apt to keep choral singers from expanding their musical experience.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /musical+notation (584 words)

	Tonic Sol-fa -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tonic Sol-fa is a system of musical notation based on relationships between tones in a key.
		Tonic Sol-fa is also the name of a singing group from (A midwestern state) Minnesota (USA).
		Reverend John Curwen (1816-1880) was instrumental in the development of tonic sol-fa in England, and was chiefly responsible for its popularity.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/to/tonic_sol-fa.htm (417 words)

	John Curwen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Curwen was born November 14, 1816 at Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, the son of Spedding Curwen and Mary Jubb.
		Her Sol-fa system was based on the ancient gamut; but she omitted the constant recital of the alphabetical names of each note and the arbitrary syllable indicating key relationship, and also the recital of two or more such syllables when the same note was common to as many keys (e.g.
		C, Fa, Ut, meaning that C is the subdominant of G and the tonic of C).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Curwen (645 words)

	JOHN CURWEN - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN CURWEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		His father was a Nonconformist minister, and he himself adopted this profession, which he practised till 1864, when he gave it up in order to devote himself to his new method of musical nomenclature, designed to avoid the use of the stave with its lines and spaces.
		The notes were represented by the initials of the seven syllables, still in use in Italy and France as their names but in the Tonic Sol-Fa the seven letters refer to key relationship and not to pitch.
		Curwen also took to publishing,, and brought out a periodical called the Tonic Sol-fa Reporter, and in his later life was occupied in directing the spreading organization of his system.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CU/CURWEN_JOHN.htm (306 words)

	Tonic Sol-Fa will bring crowd to its feet at Cambridge-Isanti High School Nov. 29
		Tonic Sol-Fa got its start at St. John’s College in Collegeville, MN and has been described as “a vocal kaleidoscope of sound unique to the human voice,” by the New York Times.
		While Tonic Sol-Fa has performed all across the country, the majority of their concerts are in the Midwest at fairs and festivals during the summer and community concerts during the winter.
		Tonic Sol-Fa is currently working on their “yet to be titled” album to be released in the spring of 2005.
	www.hometownsource.com /2004/november/22tonicsolfa.html (633 words)

	G.L. Berg Entertainment, Tonic Sol-fa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Although they are simply four voices and a tambourine, Tonic Sol-fa has spent the past seven years on the road carving their niche as the Midwest's top vocal group.
		By 1999, Tonic Sol-fa averaged two hundred and fifty shows a year in over forty states and in 2001 independently released their newest CD to hundreds of Midwestern outlets and radio stations.
		The New York Times described Tonic Sol-fa's sound as "a vocal kaleidoscope...unique to the human voice." Improvisational and passionate, their music is neither boy-band slick nor remedial.
	www.glberg.com /ACTS/tsf/Main.htm (292 words)

	SOLFEGE FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The French word in turn came from the Italian ''solfeggio'', which is a combination of ''sol'' and ''fa''.
		The advantage of moveable Do is that Do always corresponds to the tonic; the disadvantage is that the singer must do a harmonic analysis of the piece in order to sing the correct syllables.
		In fixed Do, the pitches are set: the tonic, Do, is C, Re is D, and so on; Fa is easy to remember, since it is F. There are also other syllables corresponding to notes outside of the major scale.
	www.whereintheworldiskerry.com /solfege (992 words)

	John Curwen and Tonic Sol-fa
		The tonic sol-fa method was also officially adopted by educational authorities overseas, one of the earliest to do so being the Council of Education in the Australian colony of New South Wales in 1867 (Stevens, 1980, p.81).
		The Tonic Sol-fa College was founded in 1879 as the Tonic Sol-fa School with a building at Forest Gate on the east side of London.
		Although the tonic sol-fa system was not as widely employed as a school music teaching method nor was it as prominent in church and community choral singing as it was in Britain, it was "not without influence in the United States in the nineteenth century" (Tellstrom, 1971, p.247).
	education.deakin.edu.au /music_ed/history/curwen.html (1082 words)

	Tonic Sol-fa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tonic Sol-fa is truly one of the greatest a cappella groups to come around in a long time.
		The name Tonic Sol-fa is defined in the dictionary as a system of key relationships in musical notation based on do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti and do.
		Tonic Sol-fa has been touring the country for the past 5 years performing at colleges, universities, state and county fairs, coporate shows, and community events.
	hometown.aol.com /brmac81/page (608 words)

	My Tonic Sol-Fa Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tonic Sol-Fa is one of the greatest A Cappella groups around.
		Tonic Sol-fa consists of four guys, they are, Mark, Shaun, Greg and Jared.
		Tonic Sol-fa is taking the college, corporate, and fair markets by storm, singing everything from cartoon classics to country, from Elvis to the Eagles.
	www.expage.com /tonicsolfa4 (191 words)

	Energy abounds, music resounds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A newcomer meeting the a cappella quartet, Tonic Sol-fa, for the first time might believe the claims the singers made.
		Truth be told, the men who are Tonic Sol-fa expend their time and energy, their humor and synergy to delight and entertain audiences.
		Tonic Sol-fa has won many original song and album awards and has been nominated several times for the “Entertainer of the Year” award by the National Association of Campus Activities.
	www.blaine-slplife.com /2004/January/15tonic.html (584 words)

	CD Baby: SEARCH RESULTS
		Tonic Sol-fa brings an envelope-pushing Christmas CD, "Sugarüe." They took seven traditional carols gave them a serious overhaul, and in addition, added two incredible originals.
		Tonic Sol-fa is Mark McGowan, Shaun Johnson, Greg Bannwarth, and Jared Dove.
		An Amazing Hypnotic Tonic to Remove Phobias is formulated to empower and liberate you from phobias and phobic anxiety.
	www.cdbaby.com /found?allsearch=tonic (923 words)

	TICKET SALES BEGIN FOR TONIC SOL-FA CONCERT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tickets are now on sale for the Tonic Sol-Fa dinner concert planned for March 20 in Estherville.
		Tonic Sol-Fa is a popular a cappella singing group based in the Midwest.
		In recent years, they have appeared in concert in Algona, Pocahontas, Spencer, Storm Lake and West Bend as well as Fairmont, Minn. This is the third year for the college to host a spring dinner/entertainment event sponsored by the Iowa Lakes Community College Foundation.
	www.ilcc.cc.ia.us /news_events/2003/jan/tonic_solfa2.htm (290 words)

	Tonic Sol-Fa
		Tonic Sol-Fa opened the show by joking that they actually wrote the lyrics to the Backstreet Boys' "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" while they sang their own version of the song.
		Along with this, Tonic Sol-Fa was presented the “Hall of Fame” award and been voted one of the top-five “must see groups on the college circuit” by Campus Activities Magazine.
		More information is available about Tonic Sol-Fa by visiting their Web site at www.tonicsolfa.com.
	www.marshall.edu /yearbook/ti/tonicsolfa.html (634 words)

	Curwen
		Following his death in 1880 the method which he had devoted 30 years of his life to perfecting was to form the basis of music teaching in elementary schools for half a century.
		Whatever it's limitations, Tonic Sol-fa notation provided an easily mastered device enabling ordinary people, whether children or adults, to develop in the mind the association between sound and symbol necessary to sing from the page.
		In Australia Tonic Sol-fa was adopted by the governments of New South Wales, Southern Australia and Victoria for use in schools, and classes were begun in New Zealand, Canada and South Africa.
	www.musicforlittlepeople.co.uk /Curwen.asp (2104 words)

	Dolmetsch Online - Music Theory Online - Staffs, Clefs & Pitch Notation
		The extensions 'sol fa ut' describe the position of this particular c in the progression of hexachords, starting on 'gamma ut', then restarting a fourth higher ('c fa ut'), and finally starting a fourth above that ('f fa ut') after which the sequence begins again on the g one octave above 'gamma'.
		You may remember that middle 'c' is named 'sol fa ut' in medieval music theory (see above) and that the 'c' one octave above 'middle c' is named 'sol fa'.
		It is from these two syllables 'sol' and 'fa' that the system derives its name and explains the presence of the hyphen between 'sol' and 'fa'.
	www.dolmetsch.com /musictheory1.htm (4179 words)

	Tonic Sol Fa Performance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hailing from Iowa, Wisconsin and South Dakota, the a cappella quintet has been named a top-five finalist for the national "Contemporary Artist of the Year" award presented by the National Association of Campus Activities.
		Tonic Sol-Fa has also been nominated for the NACA's "Entertainer of the Year" award whose previous winners have included Steve Martin, Simon and Garfunkel, and James Taylor.
		Tonic Sol-Fa's repertoire contains a mix of modern pop hits, classic oldies, country, award-winning originals, comedic parodies, and cartoons.
	info.bemidji.msus.edu /news/music/archive/tonic.html (259 words)

	Argus Leader - Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Records - a subsidiary of Sony Records with major-label distribution - Tonic Sol-Fa's new album, "Boston to Beijing," supposedly is the first major-label release by an a cappella group that didn't turn to the "dark side" - instrument accompaniment.
		Tonic Sol-Fa has built a fan base by performing its a cappella music regionally and nationally - in an appearance last year on "Good Morning America" - for the past six years.
		Tonic Sol-Fa members (from left) are Greg Bannwarth, Mark McGowan, Shaun Johnson and Jared Dove.
	www.argusleader.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050614/LIFE/506140344/1004 (575 words)

	pamphlet index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		There were only six syllables to start with 'ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la,' but this notation formed the basis of the tonic sol-fa as we know it today.
		Tonic sol-fa not only shows which notes to sing but is quite comprehensive in that it also shows the tempo, pulse, rhythm and how the beats are accented by a series of dots, dashed and lines.
		For example the flat of DOH became 'du' and the sharp became 'da' and this was applied to each note thus forming a chromatic scale.
	www.wcml.org.uk /culture/songs_solfa.htm (565 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Sol-fa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sol-fa, sometimes called tonic sol-fa, is both a form of musical notation and a method of teaching sight-singing devised by the Congregationalist...
		Hurok, Sol (1888-1974), American impresario, born in Pogar, Russia.
		Hurok went to the United States in 1906 and eight years later became a...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Sol-fa.html (77 words)

	Shaping the Values of Youth: Sunday School Books in 19th Century America
		It was this interest that drew him to the tonic sol-fa system with which his name is chiefly connected.
		He elaborated the tonic sol-fa method from a system taught by Miss Glover of Norwich around 1840.
		Ten years later, 186,000 people were using the tonic sol-fa system, and it is presently used widely in the elementary schools (353).
	digital.lib.msu.edu /projects/ssb/search.cfm?AuthorID=191 (439 words)

	Notable C19 Australian Music Educators
		His father was classics master at Glasgow Academy and later principal of a school at Douglas, Isle of Man; he published a work on Ovid in 1854 and was co-editor of the Cyclopaedia of Universal History (London, 1855); he went to Victoria about 1881, and died there on 5 July 1896.
		After a visit to Germany he returned to London to specialise in the Tonic Sol-fa method of teaching music, passing all the examinations of the Tonic Sol-fa College, London, and becoming a friend of the founder, John Curwen (1816-1880).
		During almost a decade at the college he was an active member of the local ‘Shakespere’ Society, published textbooks on English, geography and music theory and began his crusade to propagate the method in music education.
	education.deakin.edu.au /music_ed/history/McBurney.html (679 words)

	Tonic sol fa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The tonic sol fa is one method of naming note pitches - see history of notation for more details.
		However, the origins of the tonic sol fa are not in the 1950s, but the eleventh century!
		This gave "ut", "re", "mi", "fa", "sol" and "la" to represent the first six notes of a major scale and these names are still used (I believe) in the French system of naming notes ("ut" for C, "re" for D etc.).
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/Neil_Hawes/theory39.htm (523 words)

	Siouxland.net - Siouxland's First Source for Community News, Events and Information - Tonic Sol-Fa: Siouxland native ...
		A cappella, music where the members' voices are the front and center instruments used in performance, may no longer be available in abundance, however Tonic Sol-Fa offers fans of the melodic and creative form of music plenty of fun.
		Tonic Sol-Fa's unique blend of music is not the only thing to be showcased at the group's performance.
		After forming what could be described as the nucleus of an original Tonic Sol-Fa song, the duo brings the idea to the two other members who lend input and suggestions to that basis.
	www.siouxland.net /index.cfm?cat=62&artid=4448 (981 words)

	RARB Review of Tonic Sol-Fa - Style (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tonic Sol-Fa has all of these characteristics — pitch perfect singing (possibly aided technologically but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt), multi-layered percussion, an extremely vocally agile bass — and yet,
		However, Tonic Sol-Fa's version maintains the integrity of the original song, but adds in a really cool bridge that brings the song into the 21st century.
		But I still gave Tonic Sol-Fa a 5 for it, and I haven't been pressing "next" when it comes on, either.
	www.rarb.org /reviews/263.html (1186 words)

	‘Vocal kaleidoscope’ benefits scholarship association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A performance of Tonic Sol-fa, a local quartet that has been called “a vocal kaleidoscope.
		Tonic Sol-fa, an improvisational group, has been described as “passionate” and “neither boy-band slick nor remedial.
		Tonic Sol-fa promises to present a performance that features spontaneous interaction and “inventive production” when they visit Blaine High School Jan. 17.
	www.blaine-slplife.com /2003/December/11tonic.html (199 words)

	John Curwen Manuscripts, UM Libraries
		Though Curwen did not truly invent Tonic Sol-fa, he developed a distinct method of applying it in music education, one that included both rhythm and pitch.
		William McNaught, a devoted student of the Tonic Sol-fa Method, is said by his son to have thought of it as "musicianship of the mind with the voice as its instrument."
		In 1994, several of Curwen's manuscripts became available for purchase, and money from the Rose Marie Grentzer Fund at the University of Maryland was used to obtain these documents as a related collection to the MENC Historical Center in Special Collections in Peforming Arts in the Performing Arts Library.
	www.lib.umd.edu /PAL/SCPA/Curwen.html (832 words)

	Tonic Sol-Fa speaks for International Speakers Bureau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In their ten years together, Tonic Sol-fa has established itself not only as the most in-demand vocal group in the Midwest, but also as one of the most successful independent acts in America.
		Tonic Sol-fa had to overcome a number of obstacles, including an "unspoken" apprehension to a cappella acts by individuals in the music industry.
		Now, with the release of the group's first national CD, "Boston To Beijing," on the Nashville-based Vivaton Records label, Tonic Sol-fa is positioned to become one of the few pure vocal acts to cross over to mainstream audiences as a truly unique and innovative contemporary music act.
	www.internationalspeakers.com /speakers/ISBB-69KN3L?print=yes (517 words)

	tonic - definition by dict.die.net
		(Phon.) A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.
		Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush (1833) `` from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation.'' 2.
		Of or pertaining to tension; increasing tension; hence, increasing strength; as, tonic power.
	dict.die.net /tonic (129 words)

	10162003-1.hmtl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		LA CROSSE, Wis.Join Tonic Sol-Fa for an evening of experimental vocal percussion and smooth a cappella melodies Saturday, Nov. 8, in the Viterbo Fine Arts Center Main Theatre.
		Although Tonic Sol-Fa is merely four voices and a tambourine, this group has managed to become the Midwest's top vocal group and has performed with such artists as Weird Al Yankovic, Herman's Hermits, Lonestar, and more.
		Tonic Sol-Fa is part of the NexStar Season and is sponsored by Z-93 FM.
	www.viterbo.edu /campnews/releases/archives/fall2003/10162003-1.html (161 words)

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