List of shape-note tunebooks

Shape notes are a system of music notation designed to facilitate choral singing. Shape notes of various kinds have been used for over two centuries in a variety of sacred choral music traditions practiced primarily in the Southern region of the United States.

"Shape-note singers used tune books rather than hymnals. Hymnals were pocket-size books with texts only. Tune books were large oblong-shaped books with hard covers (nine inches by six inches was a typical size), often running to over four hundred pages. They included both music and text and were introduced by an extended essay on the rudiments of singing. Each song was known by the name given to its tune rather than by a title drawn from the text."[1]

The following is a partial list of the shape note tunebooks published over the last two centuries. The list is divided according to the two main systems of shape notes—four-shape vs. seven-shape—and within these two categories is sorted chronologically.

For full information on shape-note tunebooks, including a list of public-domain tunebooks available online, see Shape note.

Four-shape shape-note tunebooks

Seven-shape shape-note tunebooks (partial)
  • The Christian Minstrel, Jesse B. Aiken (1846)
  • Harmonia Sacra, Joseph Funk (1851)
  • Warren's Minstrel, J. S. Warren (1857)
  • Christian Harmony, William Walker (1866)
  • The New Harp of Columbia, Marcus Lafayette Swan (1867)
  • The Temple Star, Aldine Silliman Kieffer (1877)
  • The Olive Leaf, Dr. William Hauser (1878)
  • The Good Old Songs, Elder C. H. Cayce (1913)
  • Harp of Ages, Archibald Newton Whitten (1925)
  • Favorite Songs and Hymns, Morris, Stamps, Baxter, Combs (1939)
  • Heavenly Highway Hymns, Stamps-Baxter (1948/1976)
  • An Eclectic Harmony II, Eclectic Harmony II Music Committee, Sharon Kellam and Berkley Moore, Co-Chairs. Boone, North Carolina, (2001)
  • The Christian Hymnary, The Christian Hymnary Publishers (1972)
  • The Church Hymnal, Herald Press (1926)
  • " Old School Hymnal" , Old School Hymnal Co., Inc
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References
  1. Turner, Steve and Collins, Judy (2003). Amazing Grace: The Story of America's Most Beloved Song, p.118. ISBN 978-0-06-000219-0.
  2. Amazon page
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