Website developed by Robin Stevens
The following online references to John Curwen and the Tonic Sol-fa movement may be accessed by clicking on the following icons or
links:
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“A System ahead of its time” by Robin Stevens (2008) from Music in Action, 5 (5), 8-11.
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The Curwen Method website — http://music-ed.net/Curwen
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Wikipedia article on John Curwen — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Curwen
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Wikipedia article on Sarah Ann Glover — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Ann_Glover
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Dictionary of National Biography article by William Barclay Squire (Wikisource) —
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Curwen,_John_(DNB00)
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The Story of Tonic Sol-fa by J. Spencer Curwen (London: J. Curwen & Sons, 1891).
In addition, there are several books and book chapters that document the life and work of John Curwen and the development and
propagation of the Tonic Sol-fa method:
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“The Synthesis of Indigeous and Continental Methods: John Curwen” (Chapter 10) in Bernarr Raibow, The Land without Music:
Musical Education in England 1800-1860 and its continental antecedents. (London: Novello and Company Limited, 1967.
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Bernarr Rainbow, John Curwen: A Short Critical Biodgraphy. (Sevenoaks, Kent: Novello and Company Limited, 1980).
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Charles Edward McGuire, Music and Philanthropy: The Tonic Sol-fa Movement. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
