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Jesse B. Aikin

American music publisher

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history of shape-note singing

  • shape notation
    In shape-note singing: History

    Beginning with Jesse B. Aikin’s Christian Minstrel (1846), many tunebooks were printed in seven shapes, representing the seven syllables of the doremi system. Aikin’s seven-shape notation achieved wide use in the southern United States, where it was adopted in some denominational hymnals. After the American Civil War,…

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