I thank many individuals for providing resource information. During the infancy of this guide, the following knowledgeable people were particularly helpful: Charles Whitmer, Doug Allison, Keith Willard, Gaylon Powell, James Page, Berkley Moore, Kelly Day, Warren Steel, Robert Vaughn, and Robert Hall. More recently Arlie Prokop and Berkley Moore have been particularly industrious in informing me of potential shape-note and West Gallery music resources, along with many others who help to keep this guide up-to-date.
I thank Professor Warren Steel of the University of Mississippi Department of Music for setting up the hypertext version of this guide and, at the time of each update, for correcting my rudimentary HTML editing and making many recommendations. In late 2002 Warren devised the Cascading Style Sheet to control the appearance of these Web pages on various browsers, as recommended by the the World Wide Web Consortium.
I thank Jim Kent, University of California, Santa Cruz, for permission to use the background pattern floret.jpg on the title page. This background is used on the UCSC Genome Browser, the most popular and easiest to use window onto the human and mouse genomes. You are encouraged to play with this browser and have a glimpse at our "book of life."
Steven L. Sabol