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).

In 1812, Sarah started developing her educational methods that ended in two major publishings German Canons or Singing Exercises and Psalm Tunes Expressed in the Sol-Fa Notation of Music and Scheme for Rendering Psalmody Congregational.

Her 1835 instructional book Scheme for Rendering Psalmody Congregational met with great success.

Sarah Glover also invented the harmonicon, which was an instrument designed to help her teach her music notation system.