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The new Method for learning Solmisation
For all those musicians who want the best from early music!
Learn more about Fa Mi & Mi Fa est Tota Musica
Solmisation is the basis of any musical education!
Discover the most beautiful among the many puzzles and secrets written thanks to Solmisation by downloading the free e-book I have prepared for you!
In the first lesson you will learn how musical proportions were born, from Pythagoras, and how these were the basis for the entire musical system until the 18th century!
Attached to this lesson you will find 3 PDF documents:
1) The summary
2) Questions on the topic
3) Answers to questions to consolidate concepts
In the second lesson you will learn the hymn of St. John the Baptist Ut queant laxix, and how the Hexachord [ut re mi fa sol la], which Guido D’Arezzo extracted from the hymn, was fundamental for the birth of a new music reading system: SOLMISATION!
Attached to this lesson you will find 3 PDF documents:
1) The summary
2) Questions on the topic
3) Answers to questions to consolidate concepts
In the third lesson you will learn how the union of the proportions of Pythagoras, organized in the Grand Scale, and the Hexachord of Guido D’Arezzo are the fundamental ground in which to move for reading any voice with Solmisation, like a chessboard!
Attached to this lesson you will find 3 PDF documents:
1) The summary
2) Questions on the topic
3) Answers to questions to consolidate concepts
The fourth Lesson is one of the most beautiful and interesting, because you will learn to use the Guidonian Hand, an extraordinary tool, attributed to Guido D’Arezzo, whose usefulness will allow you to be able to carry all the melodies of the world in only one hand!
Attached to this lesson you will find 3 PDF documents:
1) The summary
2) Questions on the topic
3) Answers to questions to consolidate concepts
The fifth lesson acts as a fundamental premise for the following ones, in which we will enter the heart of the Solmysation.
In fact, you must know even more the terrain where you will practice Solmisation; what are the musical clefs and staves? How do they work? You will find out in this lesson!
Attached to this lesson you will find 3 PDF documents:
1) The summary
2) Questions on the topic
3) Answers to questions to consolidate concepts
Here you finally start to practice Solmisation at all!
The sixth lesson is dedicated to Mutation rules in B hard (B durus)
In simple terms, you will learn to sing a melody when it has a B hard (or B square) in the key, meaning no alteration.
In fact it is necessary to know well where to make Mutation on the Scale as the Hexachord is made up of only six notes!
Attached to this lesson you will find 5 PDF documents:
1) The summary
2) Questions on the topic
3) Answers to questions to consolidate concepts
4) The exercises for practicing the Solmisation
5) The solutions to the exercises to check how you did the exercises
Lesson seven is the logic continuation of lesson six.
In fact, in the previous lesson you learned how to Solmise a stepwise melody , but not how to Solmise leaping melodies with jumps of third, fourth, fifth, etc …
This is the Topic of this lesson, how to Solmise a leaping voice?
Attached to this lesson you will find 5 PDF documents:
1) The summary
2) Questions on the topic
3) Answers to questions to consolidate concepts
4) The exercises for practicing the Solmisation
5) The solutions to the exercises to check how you did the exercises
Lesson eight is one of the funniest!
In fact, you will learn what the Fa super La is, and the meaning of the sentence Una nota super la semper est canendum Fa.
You will learn to Solmise the Chromatism, when there are many sharps and flats in a chromatic melody.
And you will discover the true meaning of the custos which is not to anticipate what the first note of the line will be!
Attached to this lesson you will find 5 PDF documents:
1) The summary
2) Questions on the topic
3) Answers to questions to consolidate concepts
4) The exercises for practicing the Solmisation
5) The solutions to the exercises to check how you did the exercises
Here we come to lesson 9! Now you are already able to Solmise melodies without any alteration in key!
In this lesson you will learn what approach to have in front of a melody through a new two repertoire pieces that we gonna reading together with Solmisation, as a tutor guide. Subsequently you will have 3 bicinia to read with solmisation by yourself with the relative solutions to confront you with encounter difficulties in some points!
Attached to this lesson you will find 3 PDF documents:
1) The summary
2) The exercises for practicing the Solmisation
3) The solutions to the exercises to check how you did the exercises
Lesson 10 presents the content of lesson 6 and 7, that is the rules for making Mutations and how to Solmise when the nature of the chant is B soft.
Attached to this lesson you will find 5 PDF documents:
1) The summary
2) Questions on the topic
3) Answers to questions to consolidate concepts
4) The exercises for practicing the Solmisation
5) The solutions to the exercises to check how you did the exercises
In lesson 11 (as in lesson 9) you will learn what approach to take to solmise a melody in B soft through two repertoire pieces that we will Solmise together.
Subsequently you will have 3 bicinia in Bmolle to read with solmisation with the relative solutions to compare you if you encounter difficulties in some points!
Attached to this lesson you will find 3 PDF documents:
1) The summary
2) The exercises for practicing the Solmisation
3) The solutions to the exercises to check how you did the exercises
Lesson 12 is a real gem of the Solmisation!
In fact, thanks to the Complementary Clefs you can change the nature of the chant, passing from B hard to B soft, but without changing the syllables of Solmisation!
The Complementary Clefs are almost a magic of Solmization and it is very important to know them especially for when playing the repertoire in Chiavette.
Attached to this lesson you will find 5 PDF documents:
1) The summary
2) Questions on the topic
3) Answers to questions to consolidate concepts
4) The exercises for practicing the Solmisation
5) The solutions to the exercises to check how you did the exercises
Lesson 13 is entirely dedicated to Musica Ficta.
What are Complementary Hands?
How to Solmise a melody with 2 sharps or 2 flats (in the 17th century it was now practical to use accidentals)?
How to bring a melody with three, four, five, six sharps back to the nature of B hard or B soft?
You will learn all of that in this lesson!
Attached to this lesson you will find 5 PDF documents:
1) The summary
2) Questions on the topic
3) Answers to questions to consolidate concepts
4) The exercises for practicing the Solmisation
5) The solutions to the exercises to check how you did the exercises
✅An entire video course fully recorded.
Watch it when and how you want, while you are at home or on the road, from any device, computer, tablet and smartphone, directly on your reserved area of this site.
[instant access after purchase]
✅130 Pages of PDF Cards for each lesson: Summaries, Questions, Answers, Exercises, Solutions.
Test yourself with theory questions and step-by-step exercises with their answers and solutions, which means you can quickly and easily check if you understand all the Solmisation techniques, and if you have any doubts, you can find all the answers on the Answers tabs and Solutions, that are made especially for this purpose.
Use them directly from your PC or print them and always take them with you.
✅Over 100 Solmisation exercises.
An extremely large number of exercises all in one course, thanks to this vastness of exercises you will solve all your doubts about Solmisation which means that you will be able to sing correctly with solmisation any type of melody thanks to the large series of exercises available to you at any time, which you can print and practice with them on the bus or train.
✅ In just under a month you will learn what they generally teach you in a year in music academies, saving you a lot of time that you can devote to reading music more easily (once you have learned the Solmisation).
✅ Are you playing a piece and just got stuck on a point?
No problem! Turn on your smartphone, access your personal area and solve your doubt by watching the dedicated video!
✅Learn Solmisation with an easy, fun and no complex terms method, which means you won’t have to go crazy reading renaissance treatises with the difficulties of movable type printing and ancient language!
✅You not only learn Solmisation, but above all, you learn the method used by the ancient masters, which means that you too can feel like one of them!
✅Become a Solmisation master yourself.
If you teach early music, if you are an organist, harpsichordist or you teach music theory, you will have access to many exercises and new and original teaching methods to experiment with your students, thereby making you a teacher one step above the others!
✅All the exercises and examples are written with Font Serenissima, of earlymusicsources.com (of Elam Rotem)
thanks to which you will feel completely immersed in the Renaissance, exactly as if you were at the school of a 16th century Master!
An entire video course fully recorded.
[Instant access after purchase]
130 Pages of PDF Cards for each lesson: Summaries, Questions, Answers, Exercises, Solutions.
Over 100 Solmisation exercises.
Learn Solmisation in less than a month!
Save time and a lot of money than any kind of universisy or musical academy!
Easily consult each video when it’s singing or playing a part and you run into a problem!
The easy, fun and no complex terms method makes this course not only historically informed, but also enjoyable, smooth and suitable even for beginners.
You not only learn the Solmisation, but above all the method used by the ancient masters, which means that you too can feel like one of them!
Become a Solmisation master yourself. Thanks to what you will learn in with this course, you will be able to teach Solmisation to other musicians!
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