Tonic Sol-Fa Reporter

The Tonic Sol-Fa Reporter was a monthly music journal established by the London music publisher John Curwen in 1851.^[1] Shortly after Curwen's death in 1880, his son, John Spencer Curwen, succeeded his father as managing editor in 1881.^[2] In 1889 the journal was renamed the Musical Herald and Tonic Sol-Fa Reporter, and in 1891 the periodical was renamed a final time to The Musical Herald.^[1] The publication had a large circulation and was one of the most widely read musical periodicals during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.^[3] The journal was unusual in that its targeted audience was both professional and amateur musicians. The periodical included a mix of scholarly publications with a music education focus along with articles reviewing music events, interviews with musicians, music news items, and advertisements for music-related events, materials, and music education opportunities.^[1] The periodical had a significant impact on the field of music education by contributing to the popularizing of the tonic sol-fa pedagogical technique for teaching sight-reading to singers.^[4] It ceased publication in 1920.^[1]

References

1. Leanne Langley (1990). Eva Judd O'Meara; Charles Warren Fox; Richard Synyer Hill (eds.). "The Musical Press in Nineteenth-Century England". Notes. 46 (3). Music Library Association: 589. doi:10.2307/941425.
2. H. C. Colles; Peter Ward Jones; Bernarr Rainbow; Charles Edward McGuire (20 January 2001). "Curwen, John Spencer". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.90000369730.
3. John Alexander Fuller Maitland, ed. (1904). "Curwen, John". Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Vol. 1. The MacMillan Company. p. 647.
4. Rosemary Golding (2022). "Introduction". Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003003915. ISBN 978-1-003-00390-8.