Notation, deeply.
Comparisons, definitions, teaching guides, and practical content for choir directors, music teachers, and anyone composing in solfa or jianpu.
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Guide
Chinese music notation: jianpu, gongche and guqin tablature
Chinese sheet music is usually jianpu, but gongche characters and guqin tablature survive too. How to tell the three apart, and how do re mi is sung in Chinese.
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Tutorial
How to write jianpu in MuseScore: plugins, steps and limits
MuseScore has no jianpu mode. Two plugins add numbers to a staff score: how to install them in MuseScore 4, what they print, and how to get a real jianpu page.
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Tutorial
Tonic solfa app for Android: write, play and share solfa
DomiSol for Android writes tonic solfa and jianpu on your phone: type d r m, scan a hymnbook page, play each voice, and send a link or a PDF on WhatsApp.
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Guide
Choir warm-ups as a printable score, in solfa or jianpu
Describe a warm-up in plain words, or pick a preset, and DomiSol writes it as a solfa or jianpu score that climbs key by key, with syllables and a PDF.
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Guide
Most notation software assumes staff notation. Most of the world doesn't.
Solfa and jianpu are read by more musicians than staff notation, and almost no software treats them as first-class. Here's what that costs.
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Guide
Solmisasi: writing Indonesian not angka in DomiSol
Not angka is jianpu with four differences — beams above the number, Do = C, struck accidentals and si. DomiSol now writes all four, free.
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Guide
Guzheng notation in jianpu: fingering, techniques, ornaments
How guzheng music is written in jianpu: fingering characters 大食中名小, six technique marks and four ornaments, with an example and which marks sound on playback.
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Guide
An AI music assistant for choir directors
Meet DomiSol's in-editor AI assistant: ask in plain words and it harmonizes, transposes, composes, and arranges your choir's solfa or jianpu scores.
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Listicle
Best Free Tonic Solfa Editors of 2026: 4 Compared
We tested 4 free tonic solfa editors, DomiSol, Solfacity, sol2snd, MuseScore, ranked by solfa-native editing, playback, and sharing. Here's what won.
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Listicle
The best tools for writing jianpu in 2026
Honest comparison of 7 ways to write jianpu, purpose-built editors, MuseScore plugins, pen and paper. Pricing and weaknesses for each.
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Comparison
DomiSol vs Flat.io for Choirs (2026 Comparison)
DomiSol vs Flat.io for choir directors writing solfa or jianpu hymns, feature table, use-case scoring, and where each tool genuinely wins (or doesn't).
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Tutorial
How to teach tonic solfa using a digital editor
A 6-lesson guide for music teachers and choir directors teaching tonic solfa with a digital editor. Progressive exercises, common pitfalls, ready-to-use scores.
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