diff --git a/mdbook/src/implementation_notes/shape_note_noteheads.md b/mdbook/src/implementation_notes/shape_note_noteheads.md index b48c06c..5a8a7ec 100644 --- a/mdbook/src/implementation_notes/shape_note_noteheads.md +++ b/mdbook/src/implementation_notes/shape_note_noteheads.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ A number of different shape note traditions remain in common use in the shape note community. SMuFL encodes the noteheads required for four such -systems: one four-shape system; and three seven-shape systems (Walker, -Funk, and Aikin). All three seven-shape systems also use the four shapes -of the four-shape system, each introducing three additional shapes. +systems: one four-shape system; and four seven-shape systems (Walker, +Funk, Aikin and Columbia). All four seven-shape systems also use the four +shapes of the four-shape system, each introducing three additional shapes. The four-shape system, used in books such as William Walker’s *Southern Harmony* (1835), uses a form of solmization where the syllables *fa*, @@ -68,6 +68,19 @@ are as follows: | *la* (or *law*) | noteShapeSquareWhite | noteShapeSquareBlack | *ti* (or *si*) | noteShapeTriangleRoundWhite | noteShapeTriangleRoundBlack +*The New Harp of Columbia* by M.L. Swan defines a seven-shape system, +with the following shapes for each syllable: + +| *Syllable* | *Half notes and longer* | *Quarter notes and shorter* +| ---------- | ----------------------- | --------------------------- +| *do* | noteShapeHourglassWhite | noteShapeHourglassBlack +| *re* | noteShapeReversedCWhite | noteShapeReversedCBlack +| *mi* | noteShapeDiamondWhite | noteShapeDiamondBlack +| *fa* (or *faw*) | Stem down: noteShapeTriangleRightWhite
Stem up: noteShapeTriangleLeftWhite | Stem down: noteShapeTriangleRightBlack
Stem up: noteShapeTriangleLeftBlack +| *so* (or *sol*) | noteShapeRoundWhite | noteShapeRoundBlack +| *la* (or *law*) | noteShapeSquareWhite | noteShapeSquareBlack +| *ti* (or *si*) | noteShapeTriangleRoundWhite | noteShapeTriangleRoundBlack + For practical use, scoring applications should provide a means of automatically substituting regular noteheads for the appropriate shape note notehead glyph according to the pitch of each note. diff --git a/mdbook/src/preamble/version-history.md b/mdbook/src/preamble/version-history.md index aa9a85c..c92b436 100644 --- a/mdbook/src/preamble/version-history.md +++ b/mdbook/src/preamble/version-history.md @@ -1,6 +1,10 @@ Version history =============== +Version 1.50 (2022): + +- Added `noteShapeHourglassWhite` (U+E1CC), `noteShapeHourglassBlack` (U+E1CD), `noteShapeReversedCWhite` (U+E1CE), `noteShapeReversedCBlack` (U+E1CF) to [Shape note noteheads](../tables/shape-note-noteheads.md) to support the seven-shape system used in *The New Harp of Columbia* ([#248](https://github.com/w3c/smufl/issues/248)) + Version 1.40 (2021-03-15): - Added new font metadata values for font design size, barline separation, H-bar thickness, and preferred text fonts to accompany music fonts ([#95](https://github.com/w3c/smufl/issues/95), [#102](https://github.com/w3c/smufl/issues/102), [#124](https://github.com/w3c/smufl/issues/124), [#131](https://github.com/w3c/smufl/issues/131)) diff --git a/mdbook/src/tables/shape-note-noteheads.md b/mdbook/src/tables/shape-note-noteheads.md index d75038b..4f7cc95 100644 --- a/mdbook/src/tables/shape-note-noteheads.md +++ b/mdbook/src/tables/shape-note-noteheads.md @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ Shape note noteheads (U+E1B0–U+E1CF) | | **U+E1C6**
*noteShapeMoonLeftWhite*
Moon left white (Funk 7-shape do) | | **U+E1C7**
*noteShapeMoonLeftBlack*
Moon left black (Funk 7-shape do) | | **U+E1C8**
*noteShapeArrowheadLeftWhite*
Arrowhead left white (Funk 7-shape re) | | **U+E1C9**
*noteShapeArrowheadLeftBlack*
Arrowhead left black (Funk 7-shape re) | | **U+E1CA**
*noteShapeTriangleRoundLeftWhite*
Triangle-round left white (Funk 7-shape ti) | | **U+E1CB**
*noteShapeTriangleRoundLeftBlack*
Triangle-round left black (Funk 7-shape ti) +| | **U+E1CC**
*noteShapeHourglassWhite*
Hourglass white (Columbia 7-shape do) | | **U+E1CD**
*noteShapeHourglassBlack*
Hourglass black (Columbia 7-shape do) +| | **U+E1CE**
*noteShapeReversedCWhite*
Reversed C white (Columbia 7-shape re) | | **U+E1CF**
*noteShapeReversedCBlack*
Reversed C black (Columbia 7-shape re) Supplementary Groups ---------------------