Sentence examples for shape note from inspiring English sources
noun
A system of music notation designed to facilitate choral singing, and the style of psalmody associated with it.
Sam Amidon will lead a shape note singing parade.
Etymology: (Greek: globe mallow, from fruit shape) Note: Polyploidy, intermediates common.
Etymology: (Latin: dicebox, from fruit shape) Note: Bulbs of some eaten by Native Americans.
Shape note - the notes are square - started in rural New England but moved South in the 19th century.
Etymology: (Latin: arrow, from leaf shape) Note: Some species weedy; tubers of some eaten by humans, wildlife; Sagittaria brevirostra Mack.
They could become proficient in the folk dances of Macedonia, Bulgaria, or the Middle East; or experienced the full-throated singing of Shape Note and Sacred Harp.
Shape-note singing, a musical practice and tradition of social singing from music books printed in shape notes.
"Shape Notes," the only piece not originally commissioned by a choreographer or performance artist, was a lovely, dignified rendering for woodwind quartet of the group interaction and craggy melodic shapes found in traditional American "shape-note" hymn singing.
Only in the 1880s did the shape-note system decline.
Shape-note, or "fa-sol-la" singing (which uses any of several special shape-note hymnals), is also prominent in Kentucky.
