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 Constitution of the East Texas Singing Convention   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This Convention shall be known as the East Texas Singing Convention.
The officers of this Convention shall consist of: a President, Vice-President, and Secretary, who shall be elected at each annual meeting and shall serve until their successors are elected.
In case of the absence of the President, it shall be the duty of the Vice-President to preside, and in the absence of both, the Convention shall have power to elect a President Protem.
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 East Texas Musical Convention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Convention was organized in 1855, and is the oldest Sacred Harp convention in Texas, and the second oldest in the United States.
The East Texas Convention was modeled after the older (now defunct) Southern Musical Convention established in 1845 by Benjamin Franklin White, the compiler of The Sacred Harp.
William Russell Adams, President of the Convention in 1874, 1884, and 1885, wrote to Aldine S. Kieffer, explaining that the convention missed a few years of meeting because of the American Civil War.
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 Texas Sacred Harp Historical Interest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The 1930 Texas Sacred Harp Convention—by George Pullen Jackson
By Laws and Rules for the Government of the East Texas Musical Convention
Resolutions Passed by the East Texas Singing Convention
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 The Texas Sacred Harp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It was in the south where the marriage of the New England singing school music forms to the oral Celtic folk tune heritage was completed, and the folk-hymn was born.
But in many regions of Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas there grew up a tradition of "singing conventions" where people would bring their harps or harmonies and sing for hours and days at a time, usually after the crops were planted and before their harvest.
The story of how Texas singers helped keep alive the music of the first American composers, the "Yankee tunesmiths" who composed sacred music that is not only skillful and enjoyable, but was and is a sacred music that common folks can joyfully sing.
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 Book publishing, self publishing company - Approaching 150: A Brief History of the East Texas Musical Convention and ...
Originating in Harris County, Georgia in 1844, westward migration brought the Sacred Harp songbook to East Texas, where the East Texas Musical Convention was founded in 1855.
The East Texas Convention is the the oldest singing convention in Texas, and the second oldest continuous Sacred Harp singing convention in the United States.
Vaughn is a native East Texan, a fifth generation Sacred Harp singer and a member of the East Texas Convention.
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 Rules of Decorum of the East Texas Singing Convention   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Rules of Decorum of the East Texas Singing Convention
Rules of Decorum of the East Texas Musical Convention
Members wishing to address the Convention shall rise to their feet and address the President, and in speaking shall use no profane or indecent language which may reflect on the Convention or any of its members.
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