Germantown Mennonite Historic Trust: Shaped Note Singers

Shaped Note Singers  Shape-Note Singing, a musical practice and tradition of social singing from music books printed in shape notes. Shape notes are a variant system of Western musical notation whereby the note heads are printed in distinct shapes to indicate their scale degree and solmization syllable (fa, sol, la, etc.).  

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