3 traditions · growing
TraditionsSolfa & jianpu in the traditions that live in them.
How movable-do notation is actually read and sung around the world — the repertoire, the composers who built it, and how to set lyrics in each language. A series we're still growing.
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Yoruba hymns in solfa →
Yoruba hymnody in tonic solfa — the Methodist roots, the hymns of Iwe Orin Mimo, and how to set Yoruba words under the notation.
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Twi & Akan church music →
Ghana's church-music tradition in tonic solfa — the composers who shaped it, and the craft of writing Twi lyrics under solfa.
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Jianpu for instruments →
Jianpu for the erhu, dizi, guzheng, pipa, and gamelan — the first written language of Chinese, Taiwanese, and Indonesian music.