shape note
A system of music notation designed to facilitate choral singing, and the style of…A system of music notation designed to facilitate choral singing, and the style of psalmody associated with it. The heads of the notes are of various shapes, not always round.
» I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)A system of music notation designed to facilitate choral singing, and the style of psalmody associated with it. The heads of the notes are of various shapes, not always round.
Examples
2 sentencesI try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
There are two distinct systems of shape-note notation: the four-note "fasola" system, and the seven-note "doremi" system.
Synonyms
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