Glover, Sarah Anna

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Glover, Sarah Anna

Glover, Sarah Anna, English piano pedagogue;b. Norwich, Nov. 13, 1786; d. Malvern, Oct. 20, 1867. She was the originator of the tonic sol-fa system of notation, a method later modified and developed by John Curwen. She devised a pictorial chart called the “Norwich Sol-fa Ladder,” She wrote Scheme to Render Psalmody Congregational (1835; 2nd ed., 1850), Manual of the Norwich Sol-fa System (1845), and Manual containing a Development of the Tetrachordal System (1850).

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