<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial">A study that relates Curwen's tonic sol-fa method to more recent formulations is accessible at:</font><div style="font-family: arial; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial; ">http://pi.library.yorku.ca/dspace/handle/10315/6610</div><div style="font-family: arial; "><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial">Jay Rahn, York University (Toronto)</font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial">--- On </font><b style="font-family: arial; ">Mon, 7/16/12, Eytan Agmon <i><agmonz@012.net.il></i></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial"> wrote:</font><br><blockquote style="border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; "><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial">From: Eytan Agmon
<agmonz@012.net.il></font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial">Subject: Re: [Smt-talk] Movable-Do subculture in the Romance tradition?</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial">To: smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial">Date: Monday, July 16, 2012, 7:39 AM</font><br><br><div id="yiv1322517939"><style><!--
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--></style><div><div class="yiv1322517939WordSection1"><p class="yiv1322517939MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; "><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">“Moveable Do” syllables are (melodic) scale degrees, that is, intervals from the tonic (reduced modulo the octave). The “tonic Sol-Fa method” was codified and disseminated by John Curwen in the 19<sup>th</sup> century. However, the idea dates back to the “octave species” of medieval modal theory (and ultimately Greek theory). </span></p><p class="yiv1322517939MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; "><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p class="yiv1322517939MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; "><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Eytan Agmon</span></p><p class="yiv1322517939MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; "><span
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