If you can follow this link, you'll hear them singing the sol fa for a
hymn called New Jerusalem first, and then the hymn itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwUdlSHktmk
There's still though the question 'why?'. I'd have thought if a person
has the ability to learn the sol fa and the shapes, it would be easier
to learn the ordinary notes.
Incidentally, that shows some music. Could your singers try that in
stead?
Dru
On 11 Jan 2011, at 10:40, <[email protected]> wrote:
If your question is why those
particular
shapes - I have no idea.
No, it was why shapes at all? because if you remove them you are
left
with conventional notation. (I have perused a copy, but
unfortunately
don't own one).
As you say:
"people who didn't read music much but were used to seeing normal
notes, the shapes just confused them and complicated things. I think
maybe more experienced music readers could ignore the shapes more
easily"
This reminds me of the (very) old joke about television (It's
amazing!
if you close your eyes you could swear you were listening to the
radio.)
As they say in German: "warum einfach, wenn's auch kompliziert
geht?"
< whereas to use the shapes as they were intended you have
to have been trained in that system and nothing else.
Hmm....
Great music, shame about the notation!
Thanks for the Wikilink. I will explore.
C
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