berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval) (02/05/85)
In article <279@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA> mjc@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Monica Cellio) writes: >Excuse me... It's not a ShapeNote hymn. It was something called a Shaker >hymn, which I suspect is almost the same thing. Basically, simple songs >designed for ordinary people to be able to sing. Well, I don't know for sure about Shaker hymns; the only one I've ever sung was Simple Gifts. But last year the chorus I sing with did a set of Shaped Note hymns from THE SACRED HARP, and they are NOT as easy as they look. Especially if you are trying to sing them a capella, and in good tune. (I.E. perfect fifths, none of this equal tempered garbage.) True, it's not like trying to sing Messiaen (which I've done, too), but it's hard to do VERY well. -- Berry Kercheval Zehntel Inc. (ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry) (415)932-6900
mjc@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Monica Cellio) (02/08/85)
Excuse me... It's not a ShapeNote hymn. It was something called a Shaker hymn, which I suspect is almost the same thing. Basically, simple songs designed for ordinary people to be able to sing. -Dragon -- UUCP: ...ucbvax!dual!lll-crg!dragon ARPA: monica.cellio@cmu-cs-cad or dragon@lll-crg
mike@smu.UUCP (02/15/85)
Doesn't Shaker refer to a group of settlers in the 18th century? I always thought this. I don't think it is a musical term, anyhow; I've seen it used to describe bread. Mike McNally smu