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The last three lines quoted mention 'solfa' and 'fayne.'
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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I know tonic solfa and the notes on a piano, on which I can play four Christmas carols from memory.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2009
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She took no notice while he read by rote a solfa fable for her, plappering flatly: —
Ulysses 2003
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She was practicing solfa exercises in the music room.
War and Peace 2003
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From about 1800, singing-school tunebooks bagan to be published in a four-shape system of shaped noteheads corresponding to the then current Elizabethan solfa solmization.
The Southern Harmony 1809-1875 1966
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She took no notice while he read by rote a solfa fable for her, plappering flatly:
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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She was practicing solfa exercises in the music room.
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869
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Il pretesto della minaccia alla patria (solita solfa) aveva garantito all'amministrazione Roosevelt un terzo mandato alla presidenza, cosa mai avvenuta prima in
WN.com - Articles related to Bombay High Court dismisses Lalit Modi's Petition 2010
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Il pretesto della minaccia alla patria (solita solfa) aveva garantito all'amministrazione Roosevelt un terzo mandato alla presidenza, cosa mai avvenuta prima in America, e gli aveva consentito di ridurre drasticamente i poteri del Congresso a vantaggio dell'esecutivo.
WN.com - Articles related to Bombay High Court dismisses Lalit Modi's Petition 2010
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Il pretesto della minaccia alla patria (solita solfa) aveva garantito all'amministrazione Roosevelt un terzo mandato alla presidenza, cosa mai avvenuta prima in America, e gli aveva consentito di ridurre drasticamente i poteri del
WN.com - Articles related to Bombay High Court dismisses Lalit Modi's Petition 2010
brtom commented on the word solfa
She took no notice while he read by rote a solfa fable for her, plappering flatly ...
Joyce, Ulysses, 11
January 7, 2007