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    the Sacred Harp Performed by the Alabama Sacred Harp Singers Problems playing this file? See media help. Sacred Harp singing is a tradition of sacred choral...
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  • The New Sacred Harp (or The New Sacred Harp: A Collection of Hymn-tunes, Anthems, and Popular Songs: for the Choir, Class, Convention and Home Circle)...
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  • The Alabama Sacred Harp Singers were any of the informal groups participating in four recorded Sacred Harp singing sessions in Alabama in the 20th century...
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    United States. Bachman's first projects were released under the moniker Sacred Harp. In 2011, Bachman released Grey-Black-Green, his first release under...
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    Shape note (category Sacred Harp)
    scale are sung. For instance, in the four-shape tradition used in the Sacred Harp and elsewhere, the notes of a C major scale are notated and sung as follows:...
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  • Joseph Stephen James (category Sacred Harp)
    shape note singer, composer, and a reviser of the tunebook known as The Sacred Harp. Joe S. James was born March 20, 1849, in Campbell County (now in Douglas...
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  • "Daniel and the Sacred Harp" is a song written by Robbie Robertson that was first released by The Band on their 1970 album Stage Fright. It has been covered...
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    Hugh McGraw (category Sacred Harp)
    contemporary Sacred Harp singing. He was the General Chairman of the committee that created the 1991 Denson revision of The Sacred Harp and played an...
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    folk musician Jean Ritchie and her family, white Sacred Harp singers in Georgia, black Sacred Harp singers in Alabama, and a prison choir at the Texas...
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  • is the leading state for Sacred Harp singing. More annual singings are held in Alabama than in any other state. The Sacred Harp: Revised Cooper Edition...
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  • selections were not necessarily performed authentically in the film: the two Sacred Harp songs, although generally authentic to the period and region, contained...
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    1818, and as such it has remained in shape note collections such as the Sacred Harp ever since. However, the hymn is most often set to the tune of Joseph...
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    census. Hoboken has a continuous tradition of periodic singings from the Sacred Harp that has continued for over 150 years. These currently include monthly...
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  • Chattahoochee Musical Convention (category Sacred Harp)
    Convention is a Sacred Harp singing convention. It is an annual gathering whose purposes are worship, through the singing of Sacred Harp music, and fostering...
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    Sacred Harp, and earlier works like the Missouri Harmony, Kentucky Harmony, Hesperian Harp, D.H. Mansfield's The American Vocalist, The Social Harp,...
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    by Vincent Moon. In 2008, Perkins in Dearland recorded a cover of the Sacred Harp song "Weeping Pilgrim" for Awake My Soul, Help Me to Sing the soundtrack...
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  • Church of Christ and the Primitive Baptists. Others are associated with Sacred Harp, Southern Gospel, and similar singing traditions, whose music is religious...
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  • Sacred Harp singers often sing in the rhythm of notes inégales, thus deviating from the printed notes; for details see Performance practice of Sacred...
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  • grappled with dissipation and panic, while "The Rumor" and "Daniel and the Sacred Harp" addressed the malevolence of gossip and the loss of one's soul in pursuit...
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  • Southern Musical Convention (category Sacred Harp)
    The Southern Musical Convention was the first Sacred Harp musical convention, organized by B. F. White and others in 1845. It was formed at Huntersville...
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  • Southern Harmony (1835), and in The Sacred Harp (1844). This form of the song is still widely sung by Sacred Harp singers under the title "Clamanda"....
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    Southern Harmony and The Sacred Harp. While this style of singing has largely disappeared from British and North American sacred music, it survived in the...
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  • The Sacred Harp is a shape note tunebook, originally compiled in 1844 by Benjamin Franklin White and Elisha J. King in Georgia and used to this day in...
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    establish a singing tradition also known as Sacred Harp, fasola, or shape note singing. The Sacred Harp system uses notes represented by different shapes...
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    hymnals. They ultimately resided in the rural South, as part of the Sacred Harp singing tradition. In the latter part of the twentieth century a Billings...
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  • to part. Some renditions of this hymn (for example, the practice of Sacred Harp singer) follow a practice recommended by Billings, with some male singers...
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    "New Britain" in that work and the combination was reprinted in The Sacred Harp (1844) which was even more influential. The name "Amazing Grace" was...
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  • David Patillo White (category Sacred Harp)
    singing teacher, composer, and a co-issuer, with his father, of the 1870 Sacred Harp. He was the second child of Benjamin Franklin White and Thurza Melvina...
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  • James Landrum White (category Sacred Harp)
    tunebook known as The Sacred Harp. In 1844, three years before J. L. White's birth, B. F. White and Elisha J. King published The Sacred Harp, using the four-shape...
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    Illinois is a center of the shaped note singing revival with the Midwest Sacred Harp convention taking place yearly in Chicago. Illinois has several Christian...
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