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The song "Idumea" is an example of Sacred Harp music, also known as shape note because the notes printed on the sheet music bear shapes, such as squares and triangles, to show changes in pitch. [4] After rehearsing with the Sacred Harp singers in a studio, Burnett decided that the style was best heard in Liberty Baptist Church in Henagar ...
The Sacred Harp documentary Awake, My Soul's accompanying soundtrack Help Me to Sing: Songs of the Sacred Harp features a song by Eriksen and one by Cordelia's Dad. Paste Magazine describes Eriksen's performance of Sacred Harp songs at an Atlanta concert as "stand-out" and said Eriksen "was best at adapting the raw power of Sacred Harp to his ...
Sacred Harp singing appears as diegetic music in the films Cold Mountain (2004) [55] [56] and Lawless (2012), and as background music in The Ladykillers (2004). [ 57 ] The 2010 song " Tell Me Why " by M.I.A. includes a sample of "The Last Words of Copernicus" by Sarah Lancaster , recorded at the 1959 United Sacred Harp Convention in Fyffe ...
Cold Mountain (soundtrack) ... Sacred Harp hymnwriters and composers; Shape note; Southern Musical Convention; Southwest Texas Sacred Harp Singing Convention; W.
Shape notes are a system of music notation designed to facilitate choral singing. Shape notes of various kinds have been used for over two centuries in a variety of sacred choral music traditions practiced primarily in the Southern region of the United States. "Shape-note singers used tune books rather than hymnals. Hymnals were pocket-size ...
Most notably, throughout, Ctrl features old recordings of Sacred Harp singing, an historical tradition of sacred choral music from the Southern United States related to Shape note singing. Sacred Harp is characterized by direct, expressive and sometimes brash voices in 4-part harmony.
Back Roads to Cold Mountain is a 2004 compilation album released by Smithsonian Folkways. The album was released in the wake of the award-winning soundtrack to the film Cold Mountain , and is composed of Appalachian folk music recordings compiled by musicologist John Cohen in Appalachia .
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 in Upson County, Georgia. From its founding until 1867, White's The Sacred Harp was the "textbook" of the convention. It was a collection of songs notated by shape notes and featuring four-part ...