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| | How Sacred Harp music is sung - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | This article concerns how Sacred Harp music is sung, focusing on singing practices that are not expressed in the musical notation. | | | When Sacred Harp singers sing a song, they first sing it through "from the shapes"--that is, they read the names of the notes from their shapes, rather than singing the words of the song (for details, see Shape note; Sacred Harp). | | | A difficulty for retaining the raised sixth as a Sacred Harp tradition is the influx of newcomer singers. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Sacred_Harp_music_is_sung
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| | Sacred Harp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The twentieth-century composers often have recycled their lyrics from earlier Sacred Harp songs (or from their sources, such as the work of the 18th-century hymnodist Isaac Watts). | | | As the name implies, Sacred Harp music is sacred (Protestant Christian) music. | | | Sacred Harp singing is a tradition of sacred choral music that took root in the Southern region of the United States. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Harp
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| | New Georgia Encyclopedia: The Sacred Harp |
| | The tunes of The Sacred Harp do have a melody part, the tenor, but it coexists with three other parts in no way merely supportive of a dominant melody. | | | Sacred Harp singings follow a characteristic pattern established by White and maintained by such later singing masters as the Densons and McGraw. | | | In The Sacred Harp a tune may be ascribed to a composer, an arranger who learned it from older singers, or merely to an earlier tune book.) Some tunes, either from their origin or because of shaping through generations of traditional singers, may properly be called folk tunes. |
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http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-549
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| | Harp Music by Paul Hurst - National Parks |
| | With harp, piano and orchestra Paul Hurst fashions a tone poem with the sensations and grandeur of the ancient forest. | | | Half of this music is from recording sessions done in 1987, previously released on an album called October Light. | | | They are inspired by a place, a being, an experience through music. |
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http://www.harpmusic.com/EarthAnthem.htm
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| | Leading Sacred Harp music |
| | Leading a song in the Sacred Harp tradition means standing in the middle of the hollow square of singers and beating time to the music so that the singers can stay together as they sing a song of your choosing. | | | A birdseye or hold is a marking in the music that indicates a hold or extention of the time that a particular note is sung. | | | Some tunes are sung faster in Northern Alabama than in Southern Mississippi, etc. Each leader brings his or her own preference for the way they want their song to be sung. |
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http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/ely
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| | Sacred Harp Singing in Texas |
| | Sacred Harp is religious folk music, which is sung with the aid of a unique shape-note songbook, The Sacred Harp, first published in 1844 by B. | | | The East Texas Sacred Harp Singing Convention was organized in 1868, and is the second oldest continuous singing convention in the United States. | | | Sung a cappella, the music is distinguished by its considerable use of the minor key and its unusual four-part harmony. |
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http://www.texasfasola.org
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| | Garden State Sacred Harp Singing Convention 1997 |
| | Sacred Harp music is sung a cappella using shaped noteheads to indicate intervals. | | | The Garden State Sacred Harp singers sing at the Montclair Friends Meetinghouse on the fourth Sunday of most months throughout the year. | | | The music is powerful, the sound distinctive: modal, open chords, octave doubling, unusual harmonies. |
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http://home1.gte.net/gssh/convention97.html
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| | Sacred Harp, silver screen: North Alabama singers recorded for soundtrack to 'Cold Mountain' |
| | Sacred Harp is participatory music, sung a cappella and full voice. | | | Sacred Harp, which has roots in Elizabethan England, nearly disappeared from other parts of the country but continued on mostly in rural churches in the Deep South. | | | Sacred Harp is an little known music style, a folk tradition, a spiritual passion. |
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http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/religion/040103/sacredharp.shtml
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| | CD Baby: WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS SACRED HARP CONVENTION: Sacred Harp Singing in Western Massachusetts 2000-2001 |
| | Field recordings of Sacred Harp singing (not performing) events in western Massachusetts--the music is rugged and soulful American harmony--loud, rhythmic and spirited a'capella singing. | | | Tim Eriksen, long-time Sacred Harp singer, solo recording artist, and lead singer for the band Cordelia's Dad, was hired to provide the singing voice for the actor Brendan Gleason in the film. | | | Two Sacred Harp songs from the resulting specially organized and documented singing are featured in the film and are included on the soundtrack: Idumea (page 47 on the bottom) and I'm Going Home (page 282). |
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http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/wmshc
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| | Shiloh Sacred Harp Singers: FAQ Page |
| | But Sacred Harp is still a somewhat rare musical form, and often survives in "singings"--gatherings specifically devoted to the performance of Sacred Harp and other shape-note music. | | | The term "Sacred Harp" refers to a tradition of choral shape-note music. | | | Generally speaking, there are no lyrics being sung at the very beginning of a Sacred Harp tune. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/ar3/fasola/faq.html
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| | Traditions: The Sacred Harp (Revelations: Fall 98) |
| | 'The Sacred Harp' refers to several things: a style of performance, a repertoire composed from the 18th to mid-19th centuries, and the hymnal in which this repertoire is preserved in musical notation known as 'shape notes.' | | | Sacred Harp singing has undergone a resurgence in recent years, thanks to the folk revival of the 50's and 60's. | | | Sacred Harp singing proved especially popular among the Scotch-Irish settlers in Appalachia and the South. |
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http://www.revelsdc.org/revelat/shape.html
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| | Attention Dayton Area Singers |
| | Sacred Harp music is sung by common folks with common voices who love to sing. | | | What is the music of the Sacred Harp? | | | Twentieth-century composers represented in the Sacred Harp include members of the McGraw family of Georgia, the Denson family of Alabama, and, since 1991, several composers living outside the southern United States. |
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http://web.spsp.net/jbealle/dayton.html
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| | David Holt: Music - The Roots of Mountain Music |
| | "Sacred Harp" and "Christian Harmony" singing groups can be found today throughout the South and are not part of any denomination. | | | The music called Mountain Music, Old-time Music, Hillbilly or Early Country Music is still alive today. | | | What follows is a chronological survey of the musical influences that have changed American music as well as songs from the corresponding historical periods...songs that are still performed today by Southern Mountaineers. |
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http://www.davidholt.com/music/rootsmtnmsc.html
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| | Sacred Harp and Old Regular Baptists |
| | For the listener who wants a taste of Sacred Harp, rather than to study it in depth, one or other of the 1959 CDs is to be preferred. | | | Sacred Harp singing is a get-together - often an "all-day singing with dinner [potluck] on the grounds" (Shirley), and the picnic lunch served at Fyffe in 1959 seems to have been almost as memorable as the singing. | | | Where Sacred Harp has rhythm, and often lively rhythm at that, this music has a pulse; its very slow tempos are like breathing, or the circulation of the blood around the body. |
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http://www.mustrad.org.uk/reviews/s_harp.htm
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| | Valley Advocate: Sacred Harp Singing |
| | Fans of Sacred Harp singing (I know you're out there) will recognize the spooky drones, insistent unison rhythms, and relative absence of vocal effects that make the voices sound like pipes in an organ. | | | Sacred Harp singing almost had its day in the sun. | | | Tunes on this 19-track sampler (mostly recorded between 1928 and 1930) begin with the tonal skeleton sung out in sol-fa syllables (as in "do, re, mi"). |
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http://www.valleyadvocate.com/gbase/Music/content?oid=oid:93753
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| | Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers |
| | While singing, for the most part, the same repertory of Sacred Harp music as their Anglo American counterparts, a vocal stylistic difference is clearly apparent. | | | In 1973, The Colored Sacred Harp was reprinted in a hard-cover edition with assistance from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Alabama State Council on the Arts and Humanities. | | | Cooper, from Dothan, Alabama, prefaced his edition with the statement "The selections are from the old Sacred Harp, remodeled and revised, together with additions from the most eminent authors, including new music." The remodeling" he referred to was the transposing of a number of songs into a lower, more-easily sung, key. |
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http://www.arts.state.al.us/actc/compilation/pisgah.html
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| | Sacred Harp music |
| | Note that the song as collected by Sharp differs from the printed version - evidence that Sacred Harp hymns, like other folk songs, were sometimes customised by their singers into their own individual versions. | | | The dominant Shape Note book, The Sacred Harp, in the words of its present Music Committee, "has been left alone for most of its life." There have been only 4 revisions since it was first published by Benjamin Franklin White in 1844. | | | The musical example quoted unfortunately seems not to have survived its previous existence at its original site. |
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http://www.wgma.org.uk/Articles/sacred_harp.html
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| | Sacred Harp Singing in Ohio (FAQ) |
| | Among singers of the Sacred Harp and even among contemporary composers of Sacred Harp music, Watts is easily the most popular writer of texts. | | | In Sacred Harp tradition, songs are normally led "in two's" or "in three's". | | | A history of Sacred Harp singing conventions in Ohio, by John Bealle. |
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http://www.users.muohio.edu/callistc/fasolafaq.html
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| | MAGNANIM Sacred and Secular Music [KM]: Classical Reviews- July 2001 MusicWeb(UK) |
| | With an overall atmosphere of piety, this grave music is slow, drawn-out, and its beauty becomes apparent as one listens to the subtle melodies. | | | This a cappella work is the epitome of 15th century vocal music, in its combination of melodic waves and counterpoint, with the voices flowing together to form a whole. | | | Perhaps some of the music could be played in a more lively manner; but then the sound would lose its coherence. |
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http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2001/July01/Magnanim.htm
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| | Chapter 1- Tunebooks, Music Books, and Hymnals |
| | In the lineage of Sacred Harp editions, it is a descendent of the 1844 tunebook | | | Music of the New American Nation: Sacred Music from 1780-1820. | | | Regular "Harp sings" from this book are held in the Knoxville area in east Tennessee and are announced in the Old Harp Newsletter. |
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http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/resource/chap01.html
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| | Sacred Harp |
| | The Montclair Friends Meeting House, where the group meets, is acoustically well-suited to Sacred Harp singing, and the wide swathes of green and streets of well-kept turn-of-the-century houses provide a welcome reprieve to city life, particularly in the midst of summer swelter. | | | As anyone who has ever been to a Sacred Harp singing will attest, this music is often surprising lively and can be quite invigorating to sing—despite its “sad” modal harmonies and fire-and-brimstone imagery. | | | Articles on Sacred Harp traditions, FAQ, plus links to extensive lists of recordings (both by traditional and professional groups) and information on hundreds of local singings throughout North America and beyond, as well as links to dozens of other shape-note-related sites, are all merely a few clicks away. |
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http://stoozrecords.com/Sacred%20Harp.htm
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| | Sacred Harp Singing in New York State |
| | Sacred Harp singers from around the state as well as the entire northeastern United States and Canada meet to sing from The Sacred Harp and to enjoy the fellowship of other shape note singers. | | | One reason for the longevity of The Sacred Harp is the fact that it was enlarged and revised several times during the lifetime of its compilers, and, unlike most other tune books, continued to be revised even after their deaths. | | | The musical scale was sung to the syllables "fa sol la fa sol la mi fa", not the "do re mi" syllables we use today. |
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http://www.pronetisp.net/~dleipold/sac_harp/sh4.html
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| | Chapter 4 - Internet Resources |
| | These files are not intended to be an entirely realistsic representation of Sacred Harp songs as sung, but rather to be useful to singers in learning new songs, or new parts to already-familiar songs. | | | This very useful resource lists essentially every audio recording of Sacred Harp and Sacred Harp-style music that is or has recently been in print and distributed to the public, including field recordings and performances by amateur and professional groups. | | | For example, there are audio files from recent Chattahoochee (Georgia) and Minnesota Sacred Harp Conventions, a monthly singing at the Antioch Baptist Church in Ider, Alabama, several New Harp of Columbia singings in Tennessee, and songs from a shape-note singing school in Mississippi during which well-known songs were sung in the Choctaw (Indian) language. |
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http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/resource/chap04.html
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| | LoudHymns.Com Home |
| | Sacred Harp music contains lyrics that are direct, about the unredeemed sinner's plunge toward Hell, Christ's shed blood, and salvation for believers. | | | This WEB site is dedicated to the singers of shapenote hymns, their music, and the object of their praise, Jesus Christ, the son of God: to promote the singing of shapenote hymns, often referred to as Sacred Harp music, by preserving a visual and auditory record of current-day singings. | | | Motivations for singing this music are as varied as the singers that sing it. |
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http://www.loudhymns.com
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| | Sacred Harp at the Capitol Rotunda |
| | The song is sung from B.F. White Sacred Harp, either the Cooper edition or James\Denson edition, Page 61. | | | t a Sacred Harp gathering, singers sit facing each other in a "hollow square," organized by the four voice parts: tenor (melody), bass, treble (soprano), and alto. | | | They use oblong songbooks in which the notes are indicated by geometrically shaped symbols on a musical scale--fa, sol, la, mi. |
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http://www.arts.state.al.us/actc/compilation/rivers.html
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| | Shape Note Singing from the "Sacred Harp" |
| | Our traditional singings from the 1991 Edition of the Sacred Harp take place on the second Sunday of each month in Dinkytown/Minneapolis, and on the fourth Sunday of each month in Minneapolis. | | | The 16th Annual Minnesota Sacred Harp Singing Convention is Saturday and Sunday, September 24 and 25, 2005. | | | Copies of The Sacred Harp are available to borrow during the singing. |
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http://www.freude.com/mnfasola
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| | Sacred Harp and Seven Shapenote Singing |
| | The Sacred Harp songs featured in that film were recorded at Liberty Church, Henagar, where these recordings were made. | | | And you very soon notice that although the music may share common roots with white Sacred Harp traditions, its a rather different musical form, having more in common with gospel music. | | | And what we have on this CD are recordings of African-American singers performing Shape Note songs from a variety of songbooks other than the Sacred Harp, and employing seven rather than the usual four shapes. |
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http://www.mustrad.org.uk/reviews/s_harp3.htm
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| | Sacred Harp.mus |
| | These e-files cannot be an entirely realistic representation of Sacred Harp songs as they are sung, nor is its purpose to prescribe how they should be sung. | | | To obtain copies of the Sacred Harp and other song books, see Steven Sabol's Tunebooks, Music Books, and Hymnals. | | | If you wish to learn more about Sacred Harp and shapenote singing, please visit the Fasola Homepage. |
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http://users3.ev1.net/~amity
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| | Mississippi Music: Sacred Harp Singing |
| | The music in The Sacred Harp is printed in "shape notes," a notation system in which four different shaped note heads correspond to the syllables Fa, Sol, La, and Mi. | | | "I'm Going Home" sung by the Mississippi State Sacred Harp Convention. | | | Everyone who attends a Sacred Harp singing is encouraged to participate. |
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http://www.arts.state.ms.us/crossroads/music/music4.html
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| | Sacred Harp Photo Page 34 - 2001 UK Convention |
| | He had never met this music before and now has his own copy of Sacred Harp), David Lee, and Dave Townsend. | | | He takes this music very seriously and knows pretty much all of it, as best I can tell. | | | It took me back in time to my first contact with this music. |
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http://www.loudhymns.com/photo34.htm
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