Here is a website for those interested, for which I can't vouch but a discussion of shape-note singing came up in another context (folk music and the Georgia Sea Islanders) recently and I looked around: Introduction with links (and maybe contacts for you?): http://web.mit.edu/user/i/j/ijs/www/shapenote.html Written Shape Note Music: http://web.mit.edu/user/i/j/ijs/www/shapenote.html#example History: http://web.mit.edu/user/i/j/ijs/www/sn/sn-hist.html Best Regards, Janet Hunter To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html
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