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The hollow-square seating arrangement for Sacred Harp singing. Sacred Harp groups always sing a cappella, that is to say, without accompanying instruments. [3] [4] The singers arrange themselves in a hollow square, with rows of chairs or pews on each side assigned to each of the four parts: treble, alto, tenor, and bass.
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Hugh McGraw (February 20, 1931 – May 28, 2017) [1] was a leading figure in contemporary Sacred Harp singing. He was the General Chairman of the committee that created the 1991 Denson revision of The Sacred Harp and played an important role in promoting the spread of Sacred Harp singing.
William Hauser, The Hesperian Harp; The Christian Harp and Sabbath School Songster, (7-shape) J. S. James, Union Harp and History of Songs (1909) William Little and William Smith, The Easy Instructor (1801), Part 2 (1803) Lowell Mason, Mason's Sacred Harp (1835 and 1844 editions) John G. McCurry, The Social Harp (1855)
Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp is a 2006 documentary film directed by Matt and Erica Hinton, and narrated by Jim Lauderdale. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It follows the folk tradition of Sacred Harp singing, a type of shape-note singing , kept alive by amateur singers in the rural American South .
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In 1850, he issued a second edition of The Sacred Harp, adding 97 songs and 103 pages. With the 1850 and future editions, White was assisted by a musical committee appointed by the Southern Musical Convention. In 1859, a third edition of The Sacred Harp was released, adding 74 more songs on 63 pages. A fourth edition came out in 1869.