On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Christian M. Cepel wrote:
> Are shapenotes Renaissance? I thought they went back to plainchant
> notation. (this is probably why I only barely passed Music history last
> sem and prolly won't this sem)
AFAIK, plain chant used several types of neumes, i.e. the square neumes on
a four-line staff still used for Gregorian chant. I came across many
examples of Renaissance sheet music written with shapenotes. I'm not an
expert, but I'm pretty sure that music was written that way.
Ciao,
Guido =8-)
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