Ms. Mason believed everyone could and should learn to sing. She employed the technique of the Sol Fa method to aid in this study. This week’s immersion lesson is a demonstration of the process with examples of two lessons in two different forms.
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“I should like, in connection with singing, to mention the admirable educational effects of the Tonic Sol-fa method. Children learn by it in a magical way to produce sign for sound and sound for sign, that is, they can not only read music, but can write the notes for, or make the proper hand signs for, the notes of a passage sung to them. Ear and Voice are simultaneously and equally cultivated.” (1/314-315)
Episode 155: Solfa: An Interview with Heidi Buschbach
Miss Mason’s Music Particularly this page with its Scope and Sequence and Resources
I’m excited to hear about the upcoming changes! I’ve been thinking all summer how much easier it is to keep up with two episodes a month – and I’m just listening. I can’t imagine how hard it must be to produce as much as y’all have! Thank you for all you do.
Great work!!! I have to respectively disagree with the Curwen method of rhythm. I’m happy to help you develop some other immersion lessons that follow these principles. The reason rhythm was written this way was due to the type and availability of printing during this era. Heidi shared some amazing insights on the printing in her podcast visit!