Singing for Schools and Congregations: A Grammar of Vocal Music, with a Course of Lessons and Exercises Founded on the Tonic Solfa Method, and a Full Introduction to the Art of Singing at Sight from the Old Notation ...

John Curwen

doi:10.1017/CBO9781107300637

John Curwen (1816–80), minister and music educationist, is remembered for his promotion in Britain of the tonic sol-fa system of teaching singing. He had an innate understanding of the social value of music in education, and it was in response to being asked in 1841 to recommend the best way of teaching music in Sunday schools that he developed Norwich schoolteacher Sarah Glover's system from her Scheme for Rendering Psalmody Congregational (1835). He would spend the rest of his life refining it. Not to be confused with John Hullah's 'fixed doh' system, Curwen's method spread rapidly and by the 1860s over 180,000 people in Britain were learning tonic sol-fa. First published in 1843 and reissued here in its revised and expanded edition of 1848, this thorough textbook sets out Curwen's method, complete with a wide range of exercises for class practice.

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Index to the Tunes and Songs
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INTRODUCTION
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SECTION I - OF MUSICAL SOUNDS AND THE MANAGEMENT OF THE VOICE
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SECTION II - OF REPLICATES.–THE GOVERNING OR KEY NOTE, AND THE COMMON MODE OR SCALE
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SECTION III - OF ACCENT, RHYTHM, AND MEASURE
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SECTION IV - OF THE STANDARD SCALE, THE METRONOME, AND THE SMALL-LETTER SOLFA NOTATION
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SECTION V - OF THE CHARACTER AND MENTAL EFFECT OF NOTES IN KEY, ESPECIALLY OF DOH, ME, AND SOH.–DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE EXERCISES
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SECTION VI - OF THE CHARACTER AND PROPER MENTAL EFFECT OF THE NOTES FAH AND LAH, THE FOURTH AND SIXTH OF THE COMMON MODE
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SECTION VII - OF THE CHARACTER AND PROPER MENTAL EFFECT OF THE NOTES RAY AND TE, THE SECOND AND SEVENTH OF THE COMMON MODE
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SECTION VIII - OF TRANSITION AND THE NOTES TU AND FI, AND OF CHROMATIC NOTES
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SECTION IX - OF MINOR TUNES AND THE NOTES NE, BAH, NI, AND NU
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SECTION X - OF MELODY, ITS NATURE, ITS STYLES, ITS STRUCTURE.–OF COPYING BY EAR, AND OF COMPOSITION
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SECTION XI - OF THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF VOICES: OF SINGING IN PARTS; AND OF ENUNCIATION
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SECTION XII - OF HARMONY AND COUNTERPOINT
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SECTION XIII - OF THE CHANT AND THE PRACTICE OF CHANTING
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SECTION XIV - OF THE ANTHEM AND THE HYMN TUNE, AND OF CONGREGATIONAL SINGING
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APPENDIX TO SECTION II
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APPENDIX TO SECTION III
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APPENDIX TO SECTION IV
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APPENDIX TO SECTIONS V, VI, VII
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APPENDIX TO SECTIONS VIII AND IX
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Singing for Schools and Congregations

A Grammar of Vocal Music, with a Course of Lessons and Exercises Founded on the Tonic Solfa Method, and a Full Introduction to the Art of Singing at Sight from the Old Notation ...

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-viii

Index to the Tunes and Songs
pp viii-x

INTRODUCTION
pp xi-xlii

SECTION I - OF MUSICAL SOUNDS AND THE MANAGEMENT OF THE VOICE
pp 1-3

SECTION II - OF REPLICATES.–THE GOVERNING OR KEY NOTE, AND THE COMMON MODE OR SCALE
pp 3-6

SECTION III - OF ACCENT, RHYTHM, AND MEASURE
pp 6-10

SECTION IV - OF THE STANDARD SCALE, THE METRONOME, AND THE SMALL-LETTER SOLFA NOTATION
pp 10-18

SECTION V - OF THE CHARACTER AND MENTAL EFFECT OF NOTES IN KEY, ESPECIALLY OF DOH, ME, AND SOH.–DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE EXERCISES
pp 18-27

SECTION VI - OF THE CHARACTER AND PROPER MENTAL EFFECT OF THE NOTES FAH AND LAH, THE FOURTH AND SIXTH OF THE COMMON MODE
pp 28-38

SECTION VII - OF THE CHARACTER AND PROPER MENTAL EFFECT OF THE NOTES RAY AND TE, THE SECOND AND SEVENTH OF THE COMMON MODE
pp 39-49

SECTION VIII - OF TRANSITION AND THE NOTES TU AND FI, AND OF CHROMATIC NOTES
pp 49-64

SECTION IX - OF MINOR TUNES AND THE NOTES NE, BAH, NI, AND NU
pp 64-73

SECTION X - OF MELODY, ITS NATURE, ITS STYLES, ITS STRUCTURE.–OF COPYING BY EAR, AND OF COMPOSITION
pp 73-85

SECTION XI - OF THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF VOICES: OF SINGING IN PARTS; AND OF ENUNCIATION
pp 85-94

SECTION XII - OF HARMONY AND COUNTERPOINT
pp 95-103

SECTION XIII - OF THE CHANT AND THE PRACTICE OF CHANTING
pp 103-113

SECTION XIV - OF THE ANTHEM AND THE HYMN TUNE, AND OF CONGREGATIONAL SINGING
pp 113-130

APPENDIX TO SECTION II
pp 131-132

APPENDIX TO SECTION III
pp 132-135

APPENDIX TO SECTION IV
pp 135-141

APPENDIX TO SECTIONS V, VI, VII
pp 141-147

APPENDIX TO SECTIONS VIII AND IX
pp 147-161

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