On 7/22/2020 11:15 AM, Carl Sorensen wrote:
But to my eye, the Mennonite Hymnal from 1969 has the best aesthetics of all the scans you shared.
Much of the shape-note tradition is aimed at amateurs. It's trying to get a strong community-wide music tradition from minimal educational resources. For that 1969 book, the level of music training behind it is probably higher than many of the others.
<https://emu.edu/faculty-staff/?show=nafzigkj> There is also a successor, "Hymnal: A Worship Book" from 1992. <https://www.amazon.com/dp/0836180011> But I don't own one of those and can't find page scans anywhere. -- Karlin High Missouri, USA
