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Letters for degrees, not for pitches.
Also known as: Sol-fa notation, Curwen notation, Doh ray me notation
The singing notation writing melody as initial letters of the scale degrees rather than as pitches.
Writes melody as the initial letters of the scale degrees, with rhythm shown by punctuation between them.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Music
Notates the degree rather than the pitch, so a piece can be sung in any key from the same page and a singer learns intervals rather than note positions.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Music
Spread through nineteenth-century choral movements because it could be taught to people who could not read staff notation and printed with ordinary type rather than music setting.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Music
Initial letters of the degree names set in a line with colons and dots marking the beat and its divisions, and no staff of any kind.