
In 1879 the Tonic Sol-Fa College was opened. In 1872, Curwen changed his former course of using the Sol-fa system as an aid to sight reading, when that edition of his Standard Course of Lessons excluded the staff and relied solely on Tonic Sol-fa.

The Standard Course of Lessons on the Tonic Sol-fa Method of Teaching to Sing was published in 1858. Curwen brought out his Grammar of Vocal Music in 1843, and in 1853 started the Tonic Sol-Fa Association. It was intended that his method could teach singing initially from the Sol-fa and then a transition to. He took elements of the Norwich Sol-fa and other techniques later adding hand signals. She published her work in the Manual of the Norwich Sol-fa System (1845) and Tetrachordal System (1850) Curwen was commissioned by a conference of teachers in 1841 to find and promote a way of teaching music for Sunday school singing. Overview Glover developed her method in Norwich from 1812 resulting in the 'Norwich Sol-fa Ladder' which she used to teach children to sing.
