Printing Sounds
Event details
Join our interactive workshop and learn to print and sing tonic solfa - a system of musical notation popular in 19th-century Britain and used by missionaries throughout the world.
Explore examples of missionary printing and archival materials, and learn to set and print a hymn in tonic solfa notation; and enjoy singing through the final version of a printed hymn.
Led by staff from Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print and Philip Burnett of the University of York, the workshop highlights the importance of the printing press to missionary music making in the 19th century.
Find out more about Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print.
Image credit: Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York
About the speaker
Dr Philip Burnett is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Music at the University of York, UK. He is an historian of the musical practices found on Anglican missions in South and East Africa in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He is currently working on hymn books printed by mission stations presses.
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