Re: GSoC 2020: Shape-note notehead encoding

[Carl Sorensen]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 6:40 PM Owen Lamb <owendlamb@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Are there any corpuses (corpori?) of shape-note repertoire that I can cite
> for my proposal (perhaps what was once used to determine our own set)?
>

The originals were developed in consultation with the shape note
community.  You can see a thread discussing the stylistic choices here:

https://code.google.com/archive/p/lilypond/issues/1060

There is one reference in that thread (the 26th edition of Sacred Harmony,
IIRC).

HTH,

Carl