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Sacred Harp singing is a tradition of sacred choral music that originated in New England and was later perpetuated and carried on in the American South. The name is derived from The Sacred Harp, a ubiquitous and historically important tunebook printed in shape notes. The work was first published in 1844 and has reappeared in multiple editions ...
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 revised form by Sacred Harp singers throughout America and overseas. This article is a historical overview and listing of the composers and poets who wrote the songs and texts of The Sacred Harp.
White and Elisha J. King published The Sacred Harp in 1844, using the four-shape shape note notation. King died in 1844. In 1845, White led in the establishment of the Southern Musical Convention. In 1850, he issued a second edition of The Sacred Harp, adding 97 songs and 103 pages.
The Sacred Harp was first published in 1844; King died 31 August of the same year. [1] His younger brother Elias Lafayette King (1828-1876) was an important member of the early Sacred Harp community. He served on the committee that prepared the augmented second edition (1850).
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 shape note system of notation.It was in the musical tradition established by this book that J. L. White would carry out his musical career.
The Sacred Harp, B. F. White & Elisha J. King (1844) Hesperian Harp, Dr. William Hauser (1848) The American Vocalist, D.H. Mansfield (1849) (partially reprinted 2010) The Social Harp, John Gordon McCurry (1855) The Colored Sacred Harp, Judge Jackson (1934) Northern Harmony, Larry Gordon & Anthony G. Barrand (1979; 5th edition 2012) An American ...
The song combines elements from an "[o]ld hymn entwined with Poor Wayfaring Stranger (Sacred Harp - 1844). It appears in The Southern Zion's Songster (1864) and in Hymns For the Camp (1862)."
In 1844, B. F. White and Elisha J. King published The Sacred Harp, using the four-shape shape note system of notation. David Patillo White married Celeste V. Brown, the daughter of Reuben E. and Elizabeth Brown, in Barbour County, Alabama on December 16, 1852. They had ten children, including John T., Omer, Alice, Ella, James, Lena, Lula ...