When You Know the Notes to Sing...

The creator of Let's Play Music, Shelle Soelberg, is often nicknamed "Shelly Solfa" because she finds the solfeg syllables and handsigns SO PERFECT for training young musicians and promotes them in our curriculum.



You may have wondered how solfeg was invented,  how it became part of the curriculum, and how it helps YOUR CHILD with ear training.  Shelle recently answered these questions in a guest post:

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Here are some factoids about solfeg:

- Solfeg syllables were first written in an 11th century hymn/chant by a monk named Guido d’Arezzo.
- Researchers and educators discovered the brain’s ability to connect more easily with pitch relationships when a syllable was attached.
- Full body involvement is utilized because the hands can ‘feel’ the major scale. Thus, while singing in solfeg, the child is producing the pitch with his voice, hearing it with his ear, and reinforcing that pitch relationship with his hands.