[Smt-talk] Brigham Young's 1860s promotion of Tonic Sol-fa in Mormon colonies

[Michael Hicks]

A sidebar: Brigham Young endorsed and avidly promoted the teaching of Curwen's Tonic Sol-fa in Utah territory beginning in 1860.  The story is pretty interesting, I think, and readable in my book Mormonism and Music: A History (University of Illinois Press, 1989), 48-49.  (Search Google Books, under "Brigham Young Curwen Hicks")

http://books.google.com/books?id=t-LYv2yRim4C&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=brigham+young+curwen+hicks&source=bl&ots=9zacG9ds15&sig=VkKSTJRhTCu67PajVaJqXpwnGfE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PsAEUJiIIomnrQHwytS5CA&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=brigham%20young%20curwen%20hicks&f=false

Michael Hicks
Brigham Young University
michael_hicks at byu.edu




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