Solfa Notes

[Pay]

Greetings brothers and sisters. I'm in need of the solfa notes of our Sing out Joyfully Kingdom songs. Any solfa notes no matter the song will be high appreciated as long as it's in our Sing out Joyfully melodies.

Thanks

[trottigy]

I'm not sure I fully understand - what are "Solfa" notes?

[New World Explorer]

2 hours ago, trottigy said:

I'm not sure I fully understand - what are "Solfa" notes?

This? Shooting blind here.... Tonic sol-fa is a pedagogical technique for teaching sight-singing, invented by Sarah Ann Glover of Norwich, England and popularised by John Curwen, who adapted it from a number of earlier musical

[Hope]

21 minutes ago, New World Explorer said:

This? Shooting blind here.... Tonic sol-fa is a pedagogical technique for teaching sight-singing, invented by Sarah Ann Glover of Norwich, England and popularised by John Curwen, who adapted it from a number of earlier musical

that's what that is! 😉   Think "Do-Re-Mi" song from "The Sound of Music" ❤️ 
 

[Thesauron]

I don’t think our music has been published in any kind of solfa.

I don’t think our music has been published in any kind of solfa.

[James the Less]

The Xhosa edition of “Sing Out Joyfully” to Jehovah has been prepared with sol-fa notation due to the prevalence of this singing method in that language. Other African languages might also do similarly. Hope this helps.

 

https://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=XO&pub=sjj&srcid=share

[daydream]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonic_sol-fa

 

Tonic sol-fa (or tonic sol-fah) is a pedagogical technique for teaching sight-singing, invented by Sarah Ann Glover (1785–1867) of Norwich, England and popularised by John Curwen, who adapted it from a number of earlier musical systems

 

Examples

The "conversation" between humans and the just-arrived aliens depicted towards the end of the Steven Spielberg motion picture Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which features the iconic five-tone aural motif from the film, uses hand signals which correspond to rey, me, doh, doh (again, but a full octave lower), and soh from Curwen's Solfège.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AphKxQ2NsQo

Close Encounters of the Third Kind - First conversation with the ETs

[Pay]

Thank you very much brothers and sisters, the Sing Praises to Jehovah was published in Ewe language with Solfa notes, so I was sure the FDS will do same for the Sing out Joyfully but wasn't sure of the language. The Solfa notes makes teaching kids at family worship much easier as we used that to learn the songs in 2009 when the need Songs were released.

The Xhosa language is just what I needed. Once again dear brothers, thank you very much for the help

[daydream]

https://effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/xhosa-language/

As with many Bantu languages, the Xhosa language is a tonal language, though is also features click consonants. Click consonants are clicking noises made with the tongue on the roof of the mouth. In the English language, this noise is conveyed in literature with the word “tut”, while in American English it is a “tsk!” It is also the noise that is commonly associated in Western society with spurring a horse on. When speaking the name of the Xhosa language itself, it should actually be spoken with a click preceding the word.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IzjjNXx6dk

It’s so beautiful with all the clicks and I sing Miriam Makeba’s Pata Pata

 

 

Good grief, this is a hard language to master but quite fun actually. 

Edited October 5, 2021 by happiness IS

[vern]

Above my pay grade. 

Smile

[Thesauron]

The Xhosa edition of “Sing Out Joyfully” to Jehovah has been prepared with sol-fa notation due to the prevalence of this singing method in that language. Other African languages might also do similarly. Hope this helps.
 
https://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=XO&pub=sjj&srcid=share

Cool. I didn’t know this.