Sarah Anna Glover

Sarah Anna Glover (13 November 1786 – 20 October 1867) was an English music educator who invented the Norwich sol-fa system.^[1] Her Sol-fa system was based on the ancient gamut; but she omitted the constant recital of the alphabetical names of each note and the arbitrary syllable indicating key relationship, and also the recital of two or more such syllables when the same note was common to as many keys (e.g. C, Fa, Ut, meaning that C is the subdominant of G and the tonic of C). The notes were represented by the initials of the seven syllables, C, D, E, F, S, L, T; still in use today as their names.

^ Rainbow, Bernarr (2004). "Glover, Sarah Anna (1786–1867), music teacher". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/45795. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 15 February 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[:0-1] Rainbow, Bernarr (2004). "Glover, Sarah Anna (1786–1867), music teacher". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/45795. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 15 February 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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