fasolan.
/ˈfɑːsɒlɑː//ˈfɑːsəʊlɑː/ Music.
(See quot. 1964.)
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1933 G. P. Jackson (title) White spirituals... The story of the fasola folk.
1933 G. P. Jackson White Spirituals 3 Ask any real country person..about fasola singers, and he will very likely be able to direct you to one of them.
1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Apr. 257/1 Conventions held..for ‘fasola’ singing.
1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) viii. 126 Yankee singing masters invaded rural areas with their ‘fasola’ and ‘shape-note’ systems of reading music.
1964 Conc. Oxf. Dict. Music 320/1 Lancashire Sol-fa. A modern name for a system of sight-singing more properly called ‘Old English Sol-fa’, since it was universally used in England from at least the early 17th c. and its latest textbook appeared in 1879. It is a method of solmization applied to the normal staff notation; the first 3 notes of every major scale are called fa-sol-la, and so are the second 3 notes, the remaining note being called mi... In the Amer. Colonies (and later the U.S.A.) it was called Fasola or, sometimes (from the special notation there used), Patent Notes.
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