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Sacred Harp and Shape-Note Music Resources - Describes printed music, literature, recordings, and other resources relating to Sacred Harp singing and other shape-note music
Harmonia Sacra Hymns (Shape Notes) - Includes several hymns reset using a shape-note font.
Shape-note Hymnals - (checklist of books in the Rare Book Collection of Alderman Library University of Virginia)
The Good Old Way: Shape-note and other old tunes on MIDI - [50+ files] Growing collection, indexed to several major tunebooks.
Ottawa Shape Note Chorus - Canadian sacred harp singing group: Includes history; singing locations and times; repertoire; and photographs.
Bloomington Indiana Shape Note Singers - Includes calendar of singings, links to audio files, and background information.
Sacred Harp Singing in Northeastern Ohio - Schedules of singings; brief description of shape-note singing; history of B.F. White; downloadable songs.
Sacred Harp Singing in Texas - Local singings and organizations; extensive biographical articles on several authors and composers appearing in shape-note hymnals.
Isaac Watts Fan Club - Includes MIDI hymn tunes from: many shaped-note books, some forgotten Mason and Hastings works, and original compositions.
United Kingdom Shape-Note Page - Includes links, calendar of events, and sales of books and recordings.

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 - Shape notes are a music notation designed to facilitate congregational singing. Shape notes of various kinds have been used for over two centuries in a variety of sacred music traditions practiced primarily in the Southern region of the United States.
Cutaway guitar - The cutaway guitar is a term for guitars with a section of material near the fretboard cut off towards the bridge, usually in the shape of a curve. This cut from the guitar reduces the weight of the guitar, allows easier access to the higher notes on the fretboard, and changes its tone.
Neume - Neumes are the basic elements of Western and Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation. The earliest neumes were inflective marks which indicated the general shape but not necessarily the exact notes or rhythms to be sung.