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4 words match “SOL-FA”

SOL-FA n. 2 definitions
The gamut, or musical scale. See Tonic sol-fa, under Tonic, n.
SOLFEGGIARE v.
To sol-fa. See Sol-fa, v. i.
SOLMIZATION n.
The act of sol-faing. [Written also solmisation.]
TONIC n.
A medicine that increases the srength, and gives vigor of action to the system. Tonic sol-fa (Mus.), the name of the most popular among letter systems of notation (at least in England), based on key relationship, and hence called "tonic." Instead of the five lines, clefs, signature, etc., of the usual notation, it empl…