TONIC SOL-FA.
To the Editor of the Evening Star. Sir, —lu your paper of yesterday I observe a letter referring to the tonic sol-fa method of teaching to sing, and the immense popularity which the system has obtained throughout England. The writer quotes the opinion of the London Times. The Times, it is well known, is not accustomed to speak at haphazard on such matters, and in pronouncing it to be the only rational and popular method of teaching music worthy of the name, it only spoke a plain fact which had forced itself upon common observation. There is no system which has done a tithe of what this has to spread a knowledge of music amongst the people, and it is daily growing in greater favor. The ease and rapidity with which it may be learnt has been its chief recommendation; but it is not less admirable for the truthful manner in which it deals with the principles of music as a science. If your correspondent, “ A Lover of Music,” is a sol-faisb, and there are any others in Dunedin who would be inclined* to form a class for practice, I should be very happy to join it.—l am, &c., ? A Certificated Sol-faist. Dunedin, April 28, 1870.
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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2176, 28 April 1870, Page 2
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208TONIC SOL-FA. Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2176, 28 April 1870, Page 2
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