Teaching method for reading musical notation and sightsinging, including its application in contemporary non-tonal music
type: CreativeWork
description: Object: To suggest a method of teaching sightsinging. Objections to the Tonic Solfa System. Designed for diatonic music, does not work with non-distonic. A comparison of various fixed name system. (a) English letter names. ( b) German letter names. ( c) French solfege. ( d) Siler's Safa System. Methods used: 1. Safa or Safa and Solfa syllables. 2. Shape notes. 3. Intervals associated with objects. 4. Rhythm names. Notes to the teacher.
abstract: Object: To suggest a method of teaching sightsinging. Objections to the Tonic Solfa System. Designed for diatonic music, does not work with non-distonic. A comparison of various fixed name system. (a) English letter names. ( b) German letter names. ( c) French solfege. ( d) Siler's Safa System. Methods used: 1. Safa or Safa and Solfa syllables. 2. Shape notes. 3. Intervals associated with objects. 4. Rhythm names. Notes to the teacher.
author: Jurie Wynand Wessels
keywords: Music
date published: 1973
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:22:49Z
provider: University of Cape Town
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: College of Music

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value: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/40068