# Shape Note × Sheet Music Cover — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=shape-note+sheet-music-cover
# Shape Note carries the structure. Sheet Music Cover appear as accents, each further back than the last.
# Style descriptors only. Never imitates a specific artist, studio, brand or work.

An original image that takes its structure from Shape Note (Style, 1801–) and its accent from Sheet Music Cover (Style, 1820s–1920s). Structural cues: Differently shaped note heads; Fa-sol-la solmization; Four-part tunebook typesetting; Singing in a hollow square. Accent cues, used sparingly: Scenes of the song; Ornamental title lettering; Lithographic color; Publishers' stock frames. Composition: Four voices stacked, text aligned to the part that leads. Type and lettering: Triangle, square and diamond heads, one shape per syllable. Let one material quality come from the second style: Three or four flat lithographic colors over a yellowed paper ground. Mood: Intimacy, Trust, Nostalgia, Exhilaration. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Shape Note: Using the shapes as decoration while breaking their tie to syllables destroys the sight singing advantage and merely complicates reading.
# - Sheet Music Cover: Lining up ornamental faces without painting the scene of the song leaves a cover holding the signs of a period and none of its subject.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/shape-note/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/sheet-music-cover/design.md