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Home / News / Happy 200th birthday to the developer of tonic sol-fa: John Curwen
14 November is 200th birthday of John Curwen, who developed tonic sol-fa
Happy 200th birthday to the developer of tonic sol-fa: John Curwen
08 Nov 2016

Monday, 14 November 2016 is the bicentenary of the birth of John Curwen (1816-1880) who was the developer of the Tonic Sol-fa Method. Curwen based his Tonic Sol-fa Method on an earlier movable solmisation system invented by Sarah Glover and later, in the first half of the twentieth century, the pedagogical principles of Tonic Sol-fa were adopted by the Hungarian composer and music educator, Zoltan Kodály, and developed into what is now known as the Kodály music education method.

To commemorate this event, a John Curwen Bicentenary website is now available .  The includes details of the Tonic Sol-fa Method, links to some key references and to some of Curwen’s pedagogical textbooks, a gallery of relevant visual images and a page on Tonic Sol-fa today. There is also a link to an article entitled A system ahead of its time which outlines the main features of Tonic Sol-fa and Curwen’s contributions to music education.

Please make contact with Robin Stevens with any queries or comments.

 

 


 

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