The Sol-Fa System of Teaching Singing, As Used in Lancashire and Yorkshire
Vol. 1 of 4
by James Greenwood
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There are two kinds of scales, viz., Diatonic and Chromatic. Scales which are composed of tones and semitones are diatonic. Diatonic scales are of two kinds, Major and Minor. Scales which contain only semitones are chromatic. A Semitone is the difference in pitch between any note and the next step to it in the chromatic scale. A Tone consists of two semitones. Facility in singing all the scales is most easily obtained by the practice of sol-faing. Sol-faing means using a distinguishing name to each note sung. The relationship of the sol-fa syllables to each other is always the same, whatever the key may be. The major diatonic scale has semitones between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth notes reckoning upwards; all the other five intervals being tones. The five lines and the spaces between them form the staff: Lines temporarily made above or below the staff are called leger lines. When the Gor Treble Clef( is written on the second line of the staff, reckoning upwards, the second line takes the name of the seventh letter of the alphabet, G, and the other lines and spaces are known by the first six letters.
APA: Greenwood, James. (2013). The Sol-Fa System of Teaching Singing, As Used in Lancashire and Yorkshire (Vol. 1). London: Forgotten Books. (Original work published 1883)
MLA: Greenwood, James. The Sol-Fa System of Teaching Singing, As Used in Lancashire and Yorkshire. Vol. 1. 1883. Reprint. London: Forgotten Books, 2013. Print.