Dear Roman, Yes, it was. Thanks for passing it on.
Stewart. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LUTE-LIST" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 11:32 PM Subject: Re: Lutesong in A? > I think this was meant for the list. > ______________ > Roman M. Turovsky > > From: "Stewart McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dear Roman, You're absolutely right, of course. Modulation and accidentals complicate things. 1) Chromatic notes If the accidentals are just a few chromatic ones, which add colour to the harmony [origin of chromatic in this sense], but don't really cause a modulation, you use syllables with slight alterations in them, like Fe for F# instead of Fah (F natural), and Taw for B flat instead of Te (B natural). 2) Modulation If the music moves to a new key, and stays there for a while, you re-base your Doh to the new key. So if you start in C major, and then modulate to G major, you sing Doh for the note G instead of Soh. -o-O-o- Learning to sing sol-fa has gone out of fashion in English schools, although it was very much the done thing fifty or more years ago. The above information about accidentals comes from an old school-book I have at home: Helen V. S. Roberts,_Music-Work in the School_ (Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, n.d.). The original owner, Helen Sandys, has put the date 1943 under her name. She was Head of Music at Nottingham Girls' High School, and she bequeathed her books to the School when she died. The present Head of Music kept some of her books, but threw away all those he felt he didn't need. I rescued some of them, including old-fashioned text-books like the one above, from various school litter bins. I also rescued about 100 popular songs - sheet music from c. 1890-1920, which were part of her collection, and which were lying beside a bin outside in the rain. On a separate note, I would be very interested to know if tonic sol-fa is taught in schools in other countries. Best wishes, Stewart. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Stewart McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Lute Net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 7:13 PM Subject: Re: Lutesong in A? > Somehow I just don't see this to be helpful in any music that modulated, or > has a few accidentals even........... > RT
