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TONIC SOL-FA

Definition: TONIC SOL-FA

TONIC SOL-FA

1. (Mus.), the name of the most popular among letter systems of notation (at least in England), based on key relationship, and hence called ``tonic.'' Instead of the five lines, clefs, signature, etc., of the usual notation, it employs letters and the syllables do, re, mi, etc., variously modified, with other simple signs of duration, of upper or lower octave, etc. See Sol-fa .

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definition: TONIC SOL-FA

DomainDefinition

Fine Arts

A system of solmization widely used in Great Britain and other countries to develop sight-singing that is based on tonality or key relationships and replaces the usual staff notation wit h the initial letters of the sol-fa syllables or the syllables themselves. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: TONIC SOL-FA

Synonym by domain: sol-fa (fine arts, european union).

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Crosswords: TONIC SOL-FA

English words defined with "TONIC SOL-FA": Sol-fa. (references)

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Modern Usage: TONIC SOL-FA

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Song Titles

Eleanor Rigby (performing artist: Tonic Sol-Fa)

Man of Constant Sorrow (performing artist: Tonic Sol-Fa)

Na, Na, Na (performing artist: Tonic Sol-Fa)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: TONIC SOL-FA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: olfactions.

Words within the letters "a-c-f-i-l-n-o-o-s-t"

-1 letter: locations, olfaction.

-2 letters: colonist, coolants, factions, folacins, location, octanols, solation, stolonic.

-3 letters: actions, alnicos, atonics, cations, catlins, citolas, confits, coolant, faction, falcons, flacons, folacin, latinos, lotions, octanol, oilcans, soliton, stoical, talions, tincals.

-4 letters: actins, action, alnico, aloins, antics, atonic, califs, cantos, casino, cation, catlin, citola, clifts, cloots, coatis, coital, colins, coloni, colons, confit, consol.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-f-i-l-n-o-o-s-t"
 

+1 letter: conflations.

 

+3 letters: flocculations, focalizations.

 

+4 letters: coalifications, confabulations, conflagrations, glorifications, jollifications, mollifications, solidification.

 

+5 letters: antiforeclosure, confessionalist, solidifications.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TONIC SOL-FA


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F 4E 49 43      53 4F 4C 2D 46 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 01001110 01001001 01000011 00100000 01010011 01001111 01001100 00101101 01000110 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#78 &#73 &#67 &#32 &#83 &#79 &#76 &#45 &#70 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F 004E 0049 0043      0053 004F 004C 002D 0046 0041

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54494843372534946154035

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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