Dr. Clynes observed that the shape of a note's rise and fall is affected by the next note.
Shape note - the notes are square - started in rural New England but moved South in the 19th century.
The walrus story is shaped to introduce a note of poignancy, and it leads immediately to Attenborough's closing note: "As we understand more about the complexity of the lives of sea creatures, so we begin to appreciate the fragility of their home".
Sam Amidon will lead a shape note singing parade.
And another basketball star, George Gervin, is illustrated by an oddly shaped photograph that, as a note explains, originally showed Mr. Gervin posing with Senator John Cornyn of Texas.
With Hunt Lieberson, the two are joined, so that the sentiment of the words — by turns yearning, reflective, and joyous — gives the vocal line its urgency and its shape, each note a specific emotional character in the gentle undertow of Bach.
The GSIII curved all the way around letting the bezel expand around the mid-points, whereas the GSIV appears to be shaped a bit more like a Note or the GSII, with rounded corners, a curved top and bottom, and straighter edges along the side.
In her spare time, she is a shape-note singer and a Scottish country dancer, and has recently taken up the gaohu (the soprano Chinese violin).
Shape notes, also called character notes or patent notes, are one of many notational innovations that, like solmization syllables, attempted to make sight reading easier.
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.).
