TONIC SOLFA NOTATION MADE EASY

Tonic Solfa Notation Made Easy is a handbook written to provide guidance and assistance to choir leaders, singers, instrumentalists, and other music enthusiasts who find it difficult to notate and/or interpret music in tonic solfa notation.

This book, in ten chapters, provides a comfortable platform for individual and collective improvement in the area of tonic solfa notation interpretation. The first chapter introduces tonic solfa and stresses on tonic solfa syllables and different octaves. Chapter 2 and 3 discuss diatonic scale, chromatic scale, tones and semitones. Chapter 4 explains the identification of pitches in different octaves. Time signatures, simple and compound times, are extensively discussed in chapter 5. Chapter 6 and 7 explain rhythm, anacrusis, and tonic solfa punctuations. In chapter 8, several possible ways of manipulating beats in tonic solfa notation was discussed (half beats, quarter beats, full beats, triplets, and duplets). Chapter 9 deals with other tools for tonic solfa interpretation which includes tempo marking, slur, tie, and common musical terms. Chapter 10 contains a number of exercises based on lessons covered in the book.

In addition, for easy understanding, this book goes with an audio guide that provides necessary sonic assistance to its users. This audio guide contains all the exercises structured chronologically from the first chapter to the last. It is my desire that this book meets your needs.