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	fasola.org - Sacred Harp and Shape Note singing
		Sacred Harp is a uniquely American tradition that brings communities together to sing four-part hymns and anthems.
		Though Sacred Harp is not affiliated with any denomination, it is a deeply spiritual experience for all involved, and functions as a religious observance for many singers.
		SHMHA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose purpose is the preservation and perpetuation of Sacred Harp singing and its traditions.
	www.fasola.org (591 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: The Sacred Harp
		Sacred Harp singings follow a characteristic pattern established by White and maintained by such later singing masters as the Densons and McGraw.
		In The Sacred Harp a tune may be ascribed to a composer, an arranger who learned it from older singers, or merely to an earlier tune book.) Some tunes, either from their origin or because of shaping through generations of traditional singers, may properly be called folk tunes.
		Sacred Harp singing preserves traditional ways from earlier times but is also a living art form in which composers write new songs.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-549 (1608 words)

	Sacred Harp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, Sacred Harp songs are quite different from "mainstream" Protestant hymns in their musical style: in texture they are polyphonic, and for harmony they employ a stark and robust style which emphasizes open fifths.
		The oldest Sacred Harp convention was the Southern Musical Convention, organized in Upson County, Georgia in 1845.
		The two oldest surviving Sacred Harp singing conventions are the Chattahoochee Musical Convention (organized in Coweta County, Georgia in 1852), and the East Texas Sacred Harp Convention (organized as the East Texas Musical Convention in 1855).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sacred_Harp (3951 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sacred Harp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Sacred Harp singing is a tradition of sacred choral music that took root in the Southern region of the United States.
		Sacred Harp singing is an American tradition of sacred choral music that took root in the American South.
		Sacred Harp singers traditionally sit in a square, with rows of chairs or pews on each side of the square for each part: treble (soprano), alto, tenor, and bass.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sacred-Harp (311 words)

	Sacred Harp Singing: History and Tradition
		While "harp" is an old word for a hymnal containing music, in a broader sense, the "sacred harp" is the human voice or ensemble of voices.
		Sacred Harp music is written in "shape notes," which resemble standard round notes in every respect except that the head of each note has one of four shapes to indicate its interval from the key (tonic) pitch.
		Nevertheless, singing from The Sacred Harp continued to be popular in the rural South, where there evolved a tradition of all-day singings and 2- or 3-day conventions of "Fasola" music in simple one-room churches, with dinner on the grounds, the honoring of deceased relatives and friends in Memorial Lessons, and traditional Southern hospitality and fellowship.
	www.his.com /~sabol/SHhistory.html (1617 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: SACRED HARP MUSIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Another influence on the development of sacred harp music was the singing school, a tradition that began in the eastern states in the 1770s and was still popular among the people of the South during the Second Great Revival of the early 1800s, which entered Texas in the mid-nineteenth century.
		Sacred harp singings traditionally were (in some places, still are) a part of a community's homecoming celebration, of which the church and religion were major parts.
		Sacred harp singing is strong and personal and purposeful, and the singers are singing for themselves and for the joy of the sounds they are making.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/SS/xbsdd.html (1305 words)

	ipedia.com: Sacred Harp Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The two oldest surviving Sacred Harp singing conventions are the Chattahoochee Musical Convention (organized in Coweta County, Georgia in 1852), and the East Texas Sacred Harp Convention (organized as the East Texas Musical Convention in Smith County, Texas in 1855).
		Twentieth-century Sacred Harp composers have generally attempted to preserve the essentials of the tradition, by adopting for their compositions the style of one of the earlier three periods.
		The first new Sacred Harp to appear at this time was the work of William M. Cooper, of Dothan, Alabama, who in 1902 prepared a revision that, while retaining most of the old songs, also went some way towards incorporating contemporary music styles into the Sacred Harp.
	www.ipedia.com /sacred_harp.html (2607 words)

	Sacred Harp
		Sacred Harp refers to the human voice or "the harp you were born with," and it's a type of religious group singing from the late 1700s and 1800s.
		Sacred Harp became the first music to develop among the colonies and took hold in the South.
		Sacred Harp is also known as "shaped note singing," because it is written with notes that have four distinctive geometrical shapes (a triangle, oval, rectangle and a diamond) to facilitate sight-reading.
	www.acfnewsource.org /religion/sacred_harp.html (550 words)

	Mississippi Music: Sacred Harp Singing
		Sacred Harp singing is a community musical tradition that has been part of rural life in Mississippi for over 100 years.
		The singers get together at annual "all-day singings" to sing from The Sacred Harp, a book of early American religious hymns that was originally published in 1844 (it has been revised and reprinted many times since).
		The music in The Sacred Harp is printed in "shape notes," a notation system in which four different shaped note heads correspond to the syllables Fa, Sol, La, and Mi.
	www.arts.state.ms.us /crossroads/music/music4.html (150 words)

	Sacred Harp Singers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		First published in 1844, The Sacred Harp was one of many tune-books of the period to use a system of shaped notes which had been developed around the year 1800 as an aid to sight-reading.
		The tradition of the Sacred Harp still continutes in portions of the rural South, especially Georgia and Alabama.
		Interviews and music for Sacred Harp Singers were recorded at a Sacred Harp convention in Arab, Alabama in 1978 and at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in Bremen, Georgia in 1979.
	www.users.muohio.edu /callistc/SHSdescription.html (173 words)

	Sacred Harp Singing in Texas
		Sacred Harp is religious folk music, which is sung with the aid of a unique shape-note songbook, The Sacred Harp, first published in 1844 by B.
		The East Texas Sacred Harp Singing Convention was organized in 1868, and is the second oldest continuous singing convention in the United States.
		The purpose for this list is for the Texas Sacred Harp Singers to communicate with each other concerning announcements of Texas singings, and major events in the Texas singers' lives (such as deaths, serious illness, and births).
	www.texasfasola.org (710 words)

	Singing the Sacred Harp
		Alan Lomax and George Pullen Jackson first documented the Sacred Harp singing tradition in a 1942 Alabama recording for the Library of Congress Archive of American Folk Song.
		Yet against its terse, scripture-based patrimony, Sacred Harp or "shape-note" a cappella singing reveals a lyrical, rapturous spiritual passion.
		As such it perpetuates the insurgent vitality of rural religious song in the 18th-century British Isles, the baroque polyphony of northwestern Europe (as heard in the "fuging" counterpoint of many Sacred Harp tunes), and the dissident psalmody of the early Calvinist Reformation.
	www.rootsworld.com /rw/feature/sacred-harp.html (576 words)

	Home Page
		The Richmond Sacred Harp Singers were established in 1990 to carry on the Sacred Harp tradition in Central Virginia.
		We have strong ties to the Northern Shenandoah Sacred Harp and Shape Note Singers (Boyce, Virginia, near Winchester) and to the Folklore Society of Greater Washington (D. area).
		Sacred Harp is a form of "shape-note" singing, which utilizes notes with specially-shaped noteheads to indicate the position of the notes in the scale.
	members.cox.net /rshs1 (544 words)

	Sacred Harp/Downstate Ill.
		Shape-note singing or Harp singing is amateur, community-based choral music rooted in a living tradition that dates from the 1700s and 1800s.
		And in recent years Sacred Harp singing has spread nationwide, with the Denson revision predominating in Illinois.
		Music professor Warren Steel of Ole Miss gives this definition of the Sacred Harp tradition, in terms that could apply equally well to all: "Sacred Harp singing is a non-denominational community musical event emphasizing participation, not performance.
	www.sci.edu /classes/ellertsen/downstateharp.html (1034 words)

	Sacred Harp Singing in Ohio
		Sacred Harp singing is traditional religious folk music sung a cappella (no instruments) in four parts from The Sacred Harp, a tunebook printed in shape notes.
		At a Sacred Harp singing, there is no admission charge, no choir director, no rehearsal, no performance, no membership - just singing that many describe as the most powerful, most intense musical experience of their lives.
		The 2005 Ohio Sacred Harp Convention was held in Cincinnati, Ohio.
	www.users.muohio.edu /callistc/Ohiofasola.html (424 words)

	Wolf Folklore Collection: The Sacred Harp in Northeast Mississippi
		A no less perplexing question is why anyone would report Sacred Harp activity in the northeastern corner of the state, i.e., in Prestiss and Tishomingo Counties, which today show no vestige of interest and virtually no memory of any.
		Actually the reverse of Jackson's statements appears to be true: in those parts of the state where he says the Sacred Harp had a following it had none, and in the eastern half (excepting the corners), where (along with the rest of Mississippi) he considers it nonexistent, it is strong.
		Local interest in the Harp was destroyed by the popularity of the "little books" or the "new music." Early in this century small shaped-note religious songbooks, printed in the cheapest manner and selling for as little as ten cents apiece, began to appear and by 1915 were flooding the South.
	www.lyon.edu /wolfcollection/harpinmiss.htm (1176 words)

	Sacred Harp Singing
		Sacred Harp singing is a non-denominational community musical event emphasizing participation, not performance.
		Preserved in the rural South, Sacred Harp singing (also called fasola singing or shape-note singing) is making a major resurgence in cities and campuses throughout North America.
		Sacred Harp art works by Ethel Wright Mohamed and Bethanne Hill.
	www.mcsr.olemiss.edu /~mudws/harp.html (225 words)

	CNN.com - 'Cold Mountain' spotlights sacred music - Feb. 14, 2004
		Another scene, in a church, features the characters singing "I'm Going Home" from their Sacred Harp hymnals when they are interrupted with news that the war has begun.
		And while only two Sacred Harp songs appear on the "Cold Mountain" soundtrack, there is talk of releasing an entire CD filled with shape note music from the "Cold Mountain" sessions.
		Sacred Harp music was replaced in many parts of the country in the second half of the 19th century by religious hymns.
	www.cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/14/sacred.harp.revival.ap (899 words)

	Wolf Folklore Collection: Sacred Harp
		Jackson had claimed that Sacred Harp singings were rare in the upland South, and Wolf showed that they were, in fact, very popular in many northern Mississippi communities.
		"Sacred Harp singing in Mississippi is in no immediate danger of rapid decline or extinction," Wolf wrote in the Journal of American Folklore in 1968.
		During the intermission for dinner a woman tells me with pride that the Sacred Harp is the only book in which every song is based on a passage of Scripture, and her husband remarks that this is "inspired" music and that it belongs on the shelf right next to the Holy Bible.
	www.lyon.edu /wolfcollection/sacred.htm (502 words)

	Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers
		It is found at most Sacred Harp sings throughout Georgia, in North Alabama, and in parts of Mississippi and Tennessee.
		It is the Cooper revision of the Sacred Harp, first published in 1902, that is used by both white and fl singers in South Alabama.
		In 1973, The Colored Sacred Harp was reprinted in a hard-cover edition with assistance from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Alabama State Council on the Arts and Humanities.
	www.arts.state.al.us /actc/compilation/pisgah.html (2079 words)

	Peter Viney on "Daniel & The Sacred Harp"
		The Sacred Harp took root in the Southern soil sustained it through the storm of the Civil War and the drought of the the Reconstruction.
		I suspect the three meanings of harp are a small joke, with a bow to the blues myth in one of the meanings.
		The sacred harp could be a metaphor for the ability to sing loud and clear and beautifully, OR it points to the Band's longing for immediate success.
	theband.hiof.no /articles/daniel_and_the_sacred_harp_viney.html (3908 words)

	Welcome to Portland Sacred Harp
		Portland Sacred Harp warmly invites you to the
		Sacred Harp shapenote singing is a community musical and social activity, emphasizing participation, not performance.
		We sing in four-part, unaccompanied harmony from an early American songbook called The Sacred Harp, which has been continuously in print and in use since 1844.
	www.portlandsacredharp.org (156 words)

	Sacred Harp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Original Sacred Harp is a shape-note hymnal first published in 1844 by Benjamin Franklin White and in print continuously since then, last revised in 1991.
		Over the past decade interest has spread and in addition to local groups singing monthly or weekly, several times per year there are conventions devoted to singing from the Sacred Harp in various locations throughout the United States and Canada.
		The 1991 edition of the Sacred Harp is available in bookstores or directly from Sacred Harp Publishing Co., 1010 Waddell St., Bremen, GA 30110.
	www.mit.edu /people/ijs/sacredharp.html (182 words)

	Garden State Sacred Harp Singings
		We also invite your participation in the Garden State Sacred Harp Singing Convention, held annually on the Friday and Saturday preceding the third Sunday in May. More than 150 singers from the region and from across North America attend.
		It is the largest Sacred Harp singing event in the New York City metropolitan area.
		For more information about Sacred Harp singing in general and pointers to the abundant Sacred Harp resources on the Internet and singings throughout the USA and abroad, we recommend starting with Warren Steel's Sacred Harp page at the University of Mississippi.
	mysite.verizon.net /gssh (707 words)

	B. F. White: The Sacred Harp Man
		A second edition of The Sacred Harp was published by White in January 1850.
		The tunes which White composed, arranged, and adapted for The Sacred Harp have that rare quality of long life and many have remained favorites in today's singing.
		He did not undertake the revisions of The Sacred Harp by himself, but let the revising committee be selected by the Southern Musical Convention for the 1850, 1859, and 1869 editions.
	biographies.texasfasola.org /bfwhite.html (2302 words)

	Original Sacred Harp
		The Sacred Harp Publishing Company is a non-profit corporation belonging to its stockholders, who elect a Board of Directors in even-numbered years, to conduct business both for the corporation and for promotion of the spread of Sacred Harp singing.
		The Sacred Harp Headquarters and Museum at Oak Grove Road, Carrollton, Georgia, was built on land donated by the Denney Family.
		To have attended and led a song at eight Sacred Harp singing sessions in our book since January 1st of the year in which funding is requested, or the previous year if you have not used them on an approved scholarship application previously.
	www.originalsacredharp.com (724 words)

	Amazon.com: Sacred Harp Singing: Music: Alabama Sacred Harp Singers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Since its release, Sacred Harp Singing has become a Rosetta stone of sorts for contemporary singers, who can compare their sound against that of the first authentic recording of a convention, the Alabama Sacred Harp Singing Convention of August 1942.
		Alan Lomax himself stated that this attempt at recording a sacred harp singing was not as successful as his later attempts in stereo (refer once again to southern journey).
		Someone once described sacred harp singing as singer's music rather than listener's music, which is as accurate a label as I can think of.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000002UE?v=glance (1064 words)

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