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Schoolrmacres
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Posted: Feb 15 2005 at 10:04am \| IP Logged

I have not yet read thee Original series however I have read A Charlotte Mason Companion and Charlotte Mason Education. My question is what is Sol-fa as referred to in Charlotte Mason Education?
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Posted: Feb 15 2005 at 10:15am \| IP Logged

Darlene, Sol Fa is what we call solfege. It is sight singing using the Do re me fa sol la si do syllables, as the kids did in the Sound of Music.

Kodaly/Curwin method also teaches hand signs for each of the syllables, and I have found this particularly effective:
Hand Signs

It takes a while to learn.

Alan Jemison music has a nice sight-singing tape set for Catholic kids called "Sing Praise to God by Note".

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Using the hand signs while singing (sight reading) is so helpful! In high school, we had a very good choir director who required us to use hand signs whenever we were learning a new piece of music. We sight read for practice almost every day too.

Macbeth, do you use this just for singing practice or is it in some way tied to the music they are studying with their instruments?

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Mary Chris
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Posted: Feb 17 2005 at 2:25pm \| IP Logged

I was never taught to sing and cannot carry a tune. Is this something we could use in our home?

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Posted: Feb 26 2005 at 8:34am \| IP Logged

Thanks for the question, Darlene!

This would be a great place to ask about any other terms or CM vocabulary that is not familiar to us. Please feel free to ask here and please respond if you know any answers.

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