Re: Shape notes

2002-02-20 Thread Sander, Martin
Dear Laura! Many, many thanks for your thorough answer. I see your point and can go perfectly well with it. I never knew of the custom to print tune and words in different books. Of course I know books giving just the lyrics and an indication of the melodie, but never (apart from acompanying ins

Re: Shape notes

2002-02-20 Thread Sander, Martin
Laura Conrad wrote: > > > This URL has a clear basic example and pointers to other stuff: > > http://web.mit.edu/user/i/j/ijs/www/shapenote.html > OK! Many thanks to you and to Henrik Behrens, who gave me a hint to google, where I found several links. Now back to the originial question: Sing

Re: Shape notes

2002-02-19 Thread Sander, Martin
Laura Conrad wrote: > > > "walkon71" == walkon71 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > walkon71> are there any plans to develop any software using shape notes (do >re mi)? > > Not that I know of, but I'd use them if they were there, too. > Sorry for the question: What are 'shape notes'