Tonic Sol-fa (Solfege) Notation Akapo Emmanuel (akapo@tenstrings.org) Solfege (or Solmization) is a way of singing scale tones with syllables. The most familiar example of solfege is the song from "The Sound of Music:"Doe (Do), a deer, a female deer; Ray (Re), a drop of golden sun, etc., I have attached two tutorials for reading tonic sol-fa notation. This is in response to Wena Parry's queries here http://musescore.org/en/node/6914. The third file is a pdf with two sample melodies for you to test your skills on. See if you can identify them by sight without notating them. Please help Wena with his project., Tonic sol-fa (or tonic sol-fah) is a pedagogical technique for teaching sight-singing, invented by Sarah Anna Glover (1786–1867) of Norwich, England and popularised by John Curwen, who adapted it from a number of earlier musical systems., A"Come let us join our cheerful songs." C.M. KEY G. M. 80 ___ | :d |d :-.d |r :m |f :f |m :m |f :r |m :r.d| | Come |let us |join our|cheerful|songs, With|an- gels , The tonic sol-fa method, or doh-re-mi system, was invented by the monk Guido d’Arezzo around 1000 AD as an effective way of keeping hold of a melody from one day to the next., Rather than using a stave, clefs and noteheads, Tonic Sol-Fa uses the initial letters of the solfege scale, thus d r m f s l t (for Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti), with various signs for changes in octave, length of note, modulation to a different key, etc..