This map shows the spread of shape-note traditions out from the Shenandoah Valley through data gleaned from a ledger book of subscribers to the Southern Musical Advocate and Singer’s Friend published by Joseph Funk and Sons company from 1859-1869.

Shape-Note music subscribers to Southern Musical Advocate and Singers Friend 1859-61 are the blue pin points.

Shape-Note music subscribers to Southern Musical Advocate and Singers Friend 1867-69 are the orange pin points.

Each pinpoint represents one of the communities where subscribers were listed in the ledger book.

The density maps show how the concentration of subscribers of the Southern Musical Advocate and Singers Friend expanded from being mainly in the Shenandoah Valley in 1859 to having other significant areas of subscribers such as in the Ohio valley and Tennessee in 1867.

These maps also show emigration patterns that follow towns located along the National Road through Ohio, Indiana to Missouri, and southern emigration via the Great Valley road through the Shenandoah Valley.