fa-sol-la-ing

Updated: May 22, 2025

But the glory of our meeting house was its singers' seat that empyrean of those who rejoiced in the divine, mysterious art of fa-sol-la-ing, who, by a distinguishing grace and privilege, could "raise and fall" the cabalistical eight notes, and move serene through the enchanted region of flats, sharps, thirds, fifths, and octaves.

Harriet Beecher Stowe - The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings