otis.
Und was sind „shaped notes“? Ich denke, es müssten einfach (geschriebene) Noten sein.
Das ist aber interessant – diese Art der Notation kannte ich noch gar nicht:
Introduction
Shape-note tunebooks, of which the [COLOR=#0000ff]Original Sacred Harp is a later example, are a development of the New England singing schools and their use of the fa-sol-la (hence Fasola) solmization to teach part-music to otherwise musically untrained folk. A more [COLOR=#800080]detailed history of the development of shapenote tunebooks is under development.
The notation makes use of different shapes of note-heads to indicate the seven degrees of the scale. While there are avid singers from seven-shape books, most of the books I use rely on four shapes: Fa , Sol , La , and Mi which is the leading tone. These can represent a Major scale as fa-sol-la fa-sol-la mi fa; where fa is used both for the tonic (I) and the subdominant (IV) degrees of the scale. There are whole steps between fa, sol, and la; the note below fa is a half-step down; the tonic is a half-step above mi. By reading the shapes one need not be too concerned about the sharps and flats in the key signature and how to decipher where the half and whole steps lie on the staff.
http://web.mit.edu/user/i/j/ijs/www/shapenote.html
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