Shape Notes Hymns Music Christianity

Describes Sacred Harp singing, a form of traditional music in the United States: repertory, notation, research; schedules; net resources; and other general information.

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Shape Note Resources - [bibliography; links; hymnology; organizations; singing schedules] Definitive guide to "Sacred Harp" and related musical traditions.
Sacred Harp Singing - Describes Sacred Harp singing, a form of traditional music in the United States: repertory, notation, research; schedules; net resources; and other general information.

• Sacred Harp and Shape-Note Music Resources - Describes printed music, literature, recordings, and other resources relating to hymns Sacred Harp singing and other shape-note music
• Harmonia Sacra Hymns (Shape Notes) - Includes several hymns reset using a shape-note font.
• Northern Harmony, 1993 - [hymnals; recordings] (commercial content) Information about a chorus, and an shape notes expanded reprint of an early-19th-century hymnal.
• Shape-note Hymnals - (checklist of books in the Rare Book Collection of Alderman hymns Library University of Virginia)
• Recording Sacred Harp in Ottawa - Features three MP3 recordings; discussion of recording techniques.
• Isaac Watts Fan Club - Includes MIDI hymn tunes from: many shaped-note books, hymns some forgotten Mason and Hastings works, and original hymns compositions.
• Singing the Sacred Harp - [reviews of recordings from the Library of Congress]
• Shape of Things To Come - [Aiken 7-shape music] Brief history, 10 sample scores, facsimile of old music instruction book.
• Sacred Harp, 1991 (Online Index) - [indexes; hymnals] New edition of an early-19th-century American shape notes hymnal.
• Sacred Harp - Etext and digital facsimile of 1860 edition.
• Southern Harmony: Introduction to the 4th Edition - Extensive historical article.
• United Kingdom Shape-Note Page - Includes links, calendar of events, and sales of shape notes books and recordings.
• Rising Dove: Shape Notes - Features extensive, searchable, downloadable database of recordings; singings and conventions in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Area; links.

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