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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 ...
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.
The Sacred Harp only has "Idumea," but it has been sung 2667 times at all-day singings during the period 1995-2019, [25] and was the second most popular song in 2019, sung at 140 different all-day singings held around the world.
Music, David W., William Caldwell's Union Harmony (1837): The First East Tennessee Tunebook, The Hymn (July 1987). Stanislaw, Richard J., A Checklist of Four-Shape Shape-Note Tunebooks; Steel, David Warren, with Richard H. Hulan, The Makers of the Sacred Harp (2010), pp. 96-97. Webb, George Eliga.
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 ...
These oldest songs also include a few from a remote ancestor of Sacred Harp singing, the tradition of religious choral music that flourished in rural England in the mid 18th century, for example "Milford" by Joseph Stephenson (D 273). Songs by the New England composers of ca. 1770–1810, sometimes referred to as the "First New England School".
White and Negro Spirituals, Their Lifespan and Kinship: Tracing 200 Years of Untrammeled Song Making and Singing Among Our Country Folk, with 116 Songs as Sung by Both Races. Augustin, 1943; The Story of the Sacred Harp, 1844-1944. Vanderbilt University Press, 1944; A Directory of Sacred Harp Singers and Singing Conventions. 1945
McCoy was born on February 17, 1897. [2] [3] His grandfather was Thomas Jackson Denson and his great-uncle was Seaborn McDaniel Denson. [4]McCoy learned to sing Sacred Harp music from his grandfather, [3] and he was educated at the James D. Vaughan School of Music in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee.