TONIC SOL-FA is the name of a method of teaching singing which has become popular in England during the last thirty years. It is the method now most generally used in primary schools, and is adopted widely for the training of popular choirs. Its leading principle is that of ‘key relationship
’ (expressed in the word ‘Tonic
’), and it enforces this by the use of the ancient sound-names, do, re, mi, etc., as visible, as well as oral, symbols...