Download or read book A Study of Folk Hymns in The Sacred Harp written by Lewis Zailer and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sacred Harp written by Buell E. Cobb, Jr. and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On any Sunday afternoon a traveler through the Deep South might chance upon the rich, full sound of Sacred Harp singing. Aided with nothing but their own voices and the traditional shape-note songbook, Sacred Harp singers produce a sound that is unmistakable--clear and full-voiced. Passed down from early settlers in the backwoods of the Southern Uplands, this religious folk tradition hearkens back to a simpler age when Sundays were a time for the Lord and the “singings.” Illustrated with forty-one songs from the original songbook, The Sacred Harp is a comprehensive account of a unique form of folk music. Buell Cobb’s study encompasses the history of the songbook itself, an analysis of the music, and an intimate portrait of the singers who have kept alive a truly American tradition.
Download or read book The Story of The Sacred Harp 1844 1944 written by George Pullen Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traveling Home written by Kiri Miller and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling account of the vibrant musical tradition of Sacred Harp singing, Traveling Home describes how song brings together Americans of widely divergent religious and political beliefs. Named after the most popular of the nineteenth-century shape-note tunebooks - which employed an innovative notation system to teach singers to read music - Sacred Harp singing has been part of rural Southern life for over 150 years. In the wake of the folk revival of the 1950s and 60s, this participatory musical tradition attracted new singers from all over America. All-day "singings" from The Sacred Harp now take place across the country, creating a diverse and far-flung musical community. Blending historical scholarship with wide-ranging fieldwork, Kiri Miller presents an engagingly written study of this important music movement.
Download or read book Public Worship Private Faith written by John Bealle and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sacred Harp, a tunebook that first appeared in 1844, has stood as a model of early American musical culture for most of this century. Tunebooks such as this, printed in shape notes for public singing and singing schools, followed the New England tradition of singing hymns and Psalms from printed music. Nineteeth-century Americans were inundated by such books, but only the popularity of The Sacred Harp has endured throughout the twentieth century. With this tunebook as his focus, John Bealle surveys definitive moments in American musical history, from the lively singing schools of the New England Puritans to the dramatic theological crises that split New England Congregationalism, from the rise of the genteel urban mainstream in frontier Cincinnati to the bold "New South" movement that sought to transform the southern economy, from the nostalgic culture-writing era of the Great Depression to the post-World War II folksong revival. Although Bealle finds that much has changed in the last century, the custodians of the tradition of Sacred Harp singing have kept it alive and accessible in an increasingly diverse cultural marketplace. Public Worship, Private Faith is a thorough and readable analysis of the historical, social, musical, theological, and textual factors that have contributed to the endurance of Sacred Harp singing.
Download or read book The Makers of the Sacred Harp written by David Warren Steel and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative reference work investigates the roots of the Sacred Harp, the central collection of the deeply influential and long-lived southern tradition of shape-note singing. Where other studies of the Sacred Harp have focused on the sociology of present-day singers and their activities, David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan concentrate on the regional culture that produced the Sacred Harp in the nineteenth century and delve deeply into history of its authors and composers. They trace the sources of every tune and text in the Sacred Harp, from the work of B. F. White, E. J. King, and their west Georgia contemporaries who helped compile the original collection in 1844 to the contributions by various composers to the 1936 to 1991 editions. The Makers of the Sacred Harp also includes analyses of the textual influences on the music--including metrical psalmody, English evangelical poets, American frontier preachers, camp meeting hymnody, and revival choruses--and essays placing the Sacred Harp as a product of the antebellum period with roots in religious revivalism. Drawing on census reports, local histories, family Bibles and other records, rich oral interviews with descendants, and Sacred Harp Publishing Company records, this volume reveals new details and insights about the history of this enduring American musical tradition.
Download or read book Rivers of Delight written by Word of Mouth Chorus and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Belong to This Band Hallelujah written by Laura Clawson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sacred Harp choral singing tradition originated in the American South in the mid-nineteenth century, spread widely across the country, and continues to thrive today. Sacred Harp isn’t performed but participated in, ideally in large gatherings where, as the a cappella singers face each other around a hollow square, the massed voices take on a moving and almost physical power. I Belong to This Band, Hallelujah! is a vivid portrait of several Sacred Harp groups and an insightful exploration of how they manage to maintain a sense of community despite their members’ often profound differences. Laura Clawson’s research took her to Alabama and Georgia, to Chicago and Minneapolis, and to Hollywood for a Sacred Harp performance at the Academy Awards, a potent symbol of the conflicting forces at play in the twenty-first-century incarnation of this old genre. Clawson finds that in order for Sacred Harp singers to maintain the bond forged by their love of music, they must grapple with a host of difficult issues, including how to maintain the authenticity of their tradition and how to carefully negotiate the tensions created by their disparate cultural, religious, and political beliefs.
Download or read book From the Land of the Sacred Harp an early American folk hymns of the Southern Appalachians written by Hawley Ades and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christian Sacred Music in the Americas written by Andrew Shenton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Sacred Music in the Americas explores the richness of Christian musical traditions and reflects the distinctive critical perspectives of the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music. This volume, edited by Andrew Shenton and Joanna Smolko, is a follow-up to SCSM’s Exploring Christian Song and offers a cross-section of the most current and outstanding scholarship from an international array of writers. The essays survey a broad geographical area and demonstrate the enormous diversity of music-making and scholarship within that area. Contributors utilize interdisciplinary methodologies including media studies, cultural studies, theological studies, and different analytical and ethnographical approaches to music. While there are some studies that focus on a single country, musical figure, or region, this is the first collection to represent the vast range of sacred music in the Americas and the different approaches to studying them in context.
Download or read book The Social Harp written by John G. McCurry and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the rarest country songbooks, it contains 222 pieces, mostly folktune settings, dating from the time between the Revolution and the Civil War. This facsimile reprinting has appendices useful for the study of its sources and an introduction that throws light on the men who wrote for nineteenth-century American songsters.
Download or read book A List of Long playing Recordings of Sacred Harp and Other Shape Note Singing written by and published by . This book was released on 1979* with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wesleyan Sacred Harp written by William McDonald and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shape note Study Book written by John Jacob Niles and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legacy of the Sacred Harp written by Chloe Webb and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Harp music or shape-note singing is as old as America itself. The term sacred harp refers to the human voice. Brought to this continent by the settlers of Jamestown, this style of singing is also known as “fasola.” In Legacy of the Sacred Harp, author Chloe Webb follows the history of this musical form back four hundred years, and in the process uncovers the harrowing legacy of her Dumas family line. The journey begins in contemporary Texas with an overlooked but historically rich family heirloom, a tattered 1869 edition of The Sacred Harp songbook. Traveling across the South and sifting through undiscovered family history, Webb sets out on a personal quest to reconnect with her ancestors who composed, sang, and lived by the words of Sacred Harp music. Her research irreversibly transforms her rose-colored view of her heritage and brings endearing characters to life as the reality of the effects of slavery on Southern plantation life, the thriving tobacco industry, and the Civil War are revisited through the lens of the Dumas family. Most notably, Webb’s original research unearths the person of Ralph Freeman, freed slave and pastor of a pre-Civil War white Southern church. Wringing history from boxes of keepsakes, lively interviews, dusty archival libraries, and church records, Webb keeps Sacred Harp lyrics ringing in readers’ ears, allowing the poetry to illuminate the lessons and trials of the past. The choral shape-note music of the Sacred Harp whispers to us of the past, of the religious persecution that brought this music to our shores, and how the voices of contemporary Sacred Harp singers still ring out the unchanged lyrics across the South, the music pulling the past into our present.
Download or read book The Sacred Harp written by Hugh McGraw and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A standard collection of traditional shape-note hymns.
Download or read book American Fuging Tunes in The Sacred Harp written by Molly K. Cronin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although originally from Great Britain, the fuging tune gained such popularity in eighteenth-century America that scholars now associate it with the First New England School of composers. Despite this form's popularity, Lowell Mason discouraged its use, along with the salient characteristics of eighteenth-century American composition, during his nineteenth-century better music movement. Mason succeeded in cutting off this distinctly American style in New England urban centers and Midwestern cities. However, the eighteenth-century singing school practice and compositional style continued in rural areas and eventually took root in the South. The singing school practice in the nineteenth-century Southern tradition continued using the eighteenth-century New England repertory and adapted the practice of singing shape-notes as a pedagogical tool. Singers participated in small regional singings and large-scale conventions in which they sang from these shape-note tunebooks singing first the syllables, then the text to the songs. In 1844, Benjamin Franklin White published The Sacred Harp in Georgia. Editors revised the songbook numerous times updating the collection according to the popularity of individual numbers and including songs composed by current participants in the singing tradition. The editors of the most recent revision in 1991 retained songs dating from the eighteenth century in addition to ones composed by participants throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As a result, The Sacred Harp remains an important source for eighteenth-century hymnody in general and the fuging tune in particular, as singers continue to compose fuging tunes in this tradition. This study includes analyses of fuging tunes from the most significant revisions of The Sacred Harp in order to discern different stylistic trends throughout the significant editions of The Sacred Harp. Chapter 1 takes New England fuging tunes as a starting point in order to establish the form and style of the genre, and for comparison with subsequent tunes. The fuging tunes analyzed in Chapter 1 have survived periodic revisions of The Sacred Harp, and editors continued to publish these eighteenth-century pieces alongside later compositions. The nineteenth-century fuging tunes examined in Chapter 2 are associated with the original compiler/composer of The Sacred Harp, Benjamin Franklin White. Composers in the second half of the nineteenth century drew on other musical sources, such as folk hymns, which are also found in Southern tunebooks. These fuging tunes represent the first examples by Southern composers. Chapter 3 examines popular fuging tunes from the early twentieth century that demonstrate the lasting influence of eighteenth-century fuging tunes, folk hymns, and even the first generation of Southern composers from the 1840s. The most recent revision of The Sacred Harp in 1991, considered in Chapter 4, illustrates how the Sacred Harp singing practice has been disseminated to the Northeast and Midwest. For the first time in its publication The Sacred Harp contained music composed by participants from regions outside the South. These examples demonstrate that this dissemination process did not result in a new style of fuging tune. Composers who contributed to the 1991 edition continued to draw on all the past styles to create a heterogeneous repertoire of fuging tunes. Although the fuging tune exemplifies eighteenth-century American hymnody, this genre enjoys a long compositional history through the Sacred Harp tradition, and continues to be composed and performed by an established community of singers.
