Solfy: An Online Interactive Platform for Promoting Music Literacy
Singing is part of music education curricula all over the world and can lead to amazing benefits of emotional, cognitive, physical and social health, bringing joy to both singers and audiences. Most singing education today is "by ear", leaving music literacy to those who have the privilege of learning a musical instrument by private lessons. But developing skills of singing-from-score, by practicing Solfege, can open the door to music literacy to the vast majority of students who do not have this privilege.
Learning Solfege has been up till now a tedious task and therefore practiced nowhere in the public education system. Solfy was created to change this reality. It is an interactive tool for learning and practicing Solfege, bringing together music-teaching pedagogical expertise with innovative computer science methods.
Hosting hundreds of carefully sorted exercises, Solfy sings Solfege from digital scores, prompts the user to practice his singing, and gives comprehensive feedback on his performance. Solfy is a music self-learning tool that requires only a computing device and a headset. It also enables a teacher to guide and monitor a class of student users, either in a frontal class or remotely.
We are looking for collaborations with enthusiastic and passionate music teachers to bring up pilot programs where Solfy is being used in music classes. We also encourage music teachers to enroll to Solfy's web-site and experience Solfege practicing by themselves. It is currently free for all.
