North
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- Northeast U.S.
- New York state
- Western Mass.
- Vermont; Bennington College (contact Joanne Fuller), South Hero singing school
- Montreal
- Calendars: Singings nationwide; Sacred Harp Singings in New England (Google calendar by John Martin and Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg), Vermont, Rhode Island, Yale
SouthEdit
- Florida and Southern Georgia
- Jacksonville Sacred Harp Singing
- Micanopy 1 2 (Denson) and Hoboken, Ga. (Cooper)
- Sacred Harp singing in Georgia Atlanta Sacred Harp facebook
- Florida and Alabama Cooper Book singings schedule (cf.)
- Several singings in the wiregrass country an hour and a half west of Tallahassee
- North Carolina and environs
- Christian Harmony: Western N.C. and nearby parts of Tenn. and S.C.
- Canton, N.C.: fasola.org, Mountain Grown Music, Blue Ridge Music Trails; Anne Lough of Clyde, N.C.[3][4]
- Black Mountain/Swannanoa/Warren Wilson College: Contact Joe Holbert; All-Day Singing 7/28/12 (free admission)
- Eastern Tenn.: New Harp of Columbia singings
- Shenandoah Valley: Harmonia Sacra singings; DC area to Charlottesville singings; Charlottesville; NSV
- Raleigh/Durham
Other tunebooksEdit
- Missouri Harmony in use in Missouri, Arkansas, Indiana, and Illinois
- Walker's Southern Harmony in use in Kentucky (also adopted at the Swannanoa Gathering in western N.C.)
- White Book in use in Mississippi, Alabama, and Decatur, Ga.
- The Denson-Parris revision (the "Alabama book" now incorporated into the 2010 Christian Harmony) in Georgia, the Carolinas, Arkansas, and Texas
- The new Shenandoah Harmony is strong in Virginia and Pennsylvania and spreading...
- Harmonia Sacra singings
Composing Sacred Harp todayEdit
Musicology/tunesmithingEdit
Music engravingEdit
- Musescore with shape notes plug-in
- LilyPond and Frescobaldi
RecordingsEdit
- Hollowsquare.org (contact me for a current working link: kept private by request of the site creator)
- Pilgrim Productions
- Steven Taylor
- J.Q. Wolf Collection
- Bostonsing.org
- shapenotecds.com
- Sing Them Over to Me
- WCUG Cuthbert, Ga., 1970's Hymn Time
- 1970 video from John Garst collection
- Digital Library of Appalachia Berea College recordings from Sacred Harp (including Wiregrass Singers), Christian Harmony, Harmonia Sacra, and New Harp of Columbia (misidentified as "Knoxville Sacred Harp Singers")
- Lomax recordings
- Soundcloud: Texas, Richmond, Philly, Connexion Singers, Shenandoah Harmony, Cork, Dublin, Scotland
Tune and tunebook collectionsEdit
- New AAS materials at archive.org (whole collection)
- Shapenote.net
- Wikipedia list (incl. IMSLP links)
- R.L. Vaughn list
- Bremen
- Selected round-note books:
Song textsEdit
- Sacred poetry
- ...
- Folksong texts
Other resourcesEdit
- Resources (S. Sabol)
- Rising Dove: 1 2
- Some spreadsheets by Pam Keating
- A bunch of statistics derived from the 2005 minutes
- David Jensen, "Modal studies" of SH1991 and other shapenote tunebooks
- Appalachian State University library guide
- Hymn tunes: HTI Hymnary Anthology of The American Hymn-Tune Repertory; "SWASMIS is being transformed into a fully functioning, public access website"
- Historical collections of documents or periodicals
Cooper BookEdit
- Cooper/Denson comparatio numerorum
- Karen Willard's Index to Composers, Arrangers, and Sources of Music
- Nice Cooper Book song information tables
- Further Cooper Book indices (warning: word index not completely reliable, e.g. "ready?" on p. 328 not indexed under "ready")
- Cooper Book minutes
Christian HarmonyEdit
- Christian Harmony 2010 indexes (Robert Kelley)
- Index to Composers, Arrangers, and Sources to Tunes
- Minutes and Singing Schedule
Harmonia SacraEdit
Northern HarmonyEdit
Introductions to Sacred HarpEdit
Introductory videosEdit
- Echoes of the Past: Singing the Sacred Harp, produced in North Carolina with Lydia Lewallen]
- San Jose Mercury-News
- Mike Osborne, "The South's Sacred Songs"
- Anniston Star
- David Indge, 4th Norwich All-Day Sacred Harp Singing, 11 July 2015
- "Stuck in Vermont"
- "Only in Montreal: Sacred Harp Singalong"
- Awake My Soul trailer
- Sacred Harp singing (Pop Goes the Culture podcast)
- OPB, Oregon Art Beat: Portland Sacred Harp
- They Sing of A Heaven (1972)
- Sacred Harp in Paris
- UK singers at Bonnie Prince Billy show
- 2018 interview of singers at Liberty Church (Henagar, Ala.)
More extensive documentariesEdit
- Awake My Soul
- Sweet Is the Day: A Sacred Harp Family Portrait
- Shouting Song (1982)
- The Sacred Harp of Hoboken: part 1, part 2 (dead; WaterTower films seems to have disappeared from YouTube[5])
- Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
- Valdosta State University, South Georgia Folklife Collection: Sacred Harp
- Univ. of Mississippi interviews (the field notes [PDF], complemented by the audio logs, quickly communicate the matter of these lengthy interviews)
ArticlesEdit
- Many at the Sacred Harp Publishing Company Newsletter
- Anna Claire Vollers, "This old Southern tradition bridges new cultural divides" (AL.com, 2018)
- Inara Verzemnieks, "Shapes of the Heart" (The Oregonian, 2007)
- Matt Hinton (2013, Creative Loafing Atlanta)
- Rachel Hall, "A New Generation of Shape-Note Singers in Philadelphia" (2018)
- Al Blanton (2013)
- Shape, rattle and roll: The amazing survival of shape-note singing (The Guardian, UK, 2010)
- Joe Dempsey, Washington City Paper (2007)
- ArkansasOnline (2015)
- Mark Peterson (Time)
- Andy Markowitz
- Kevin Griffin Moreno (2012)
- Minneapolis Star-Tribune, with a nice video
- Jennifer Kelly (2009)
- Nervous Pete
- Steven Sabol
- Simon Jones (2012, Church Times, UK)
- Matt Huston, Sacred Harp and Leaving the Comfort Zone (2011)
- Walter Graff, "Kudzu": a northern singer's first southern singing (part of fasola.org/essays)
- Robert S. Brunk, "Guided by Voices: Finding Grace Through Shape-Note Singing" (2016) (VQR)
- Shape Note: America's Oldest Music Now Sung Around the World
- Montgomery Advertiser (2014)
- An Anglophone visits the Sacred Harp singing in Bremen, Germany
- From a perspective skeptical of religion:
- Können Nichtglaubende Religion überhaupt verstehen? - Von Rudolf Otto bis Sacred Harp on "einen ursprünglich christlichen Laien-Chorgesang, der heute als überkonfessionelle, musikalische Bewegung weltweit religiöse und nichtreligiöse Sänger zu kraftvollen Musik- und Gemeinschaftserlebnissen zusammenführt" (2013)
- The Profane Harp: Humanism and Song (2011)
- Kate Cohen, Church (Just not the normal kind) (2014)
- Profiles: Stanley Smith
Radio features Edit
- Sacred Harp Singers (WMUB, Huntsville, 1979)
- Melissa Block (NPR)
- Kelley Libby visits the first all-day singing from the Shenandoah Harmony (Authentic South podcast)
- Sacred Harp: the punk rock of choral music (KALW San Francisco)
- Sacred Harp music (WYPR Baltimore)
- New Haven singing (WSHU)
- WMUK (Southwest Michigan), 2016
- BBC's "The Strand" (listen from the 11:00 mark) There were several other BBC features on Sacred Harp, including a half-hour documentary by Cerys Matthews from Dec. 2012, but they are no longer available online.
- audioBoom: Everything Sounds/Shapenote, Michael Walker/BBC
- Australian RadioNational: 1 2
- Singing in Derby Line, Vt. (Newport Dispatch)
- ‘Shape’ singing strikes high note in Philadelphia
- 2015 WABE report on singing from the reprinted James 1911 book
Instructional materialsEdit
- Cheat sheet for a beginner to take to a singing
- Lisa Grayson's more extensive introduction
- Lee & Willard singing school workbook
HistoriesEdit
- American hymnody (Smith Creek Music)
Essays and explorationsEdit
- Will Robin, Shape Notes, Billings, and American Modernisms
- New Approaches to Shape Note Hymns - WNYC radio program on shapenote-inspired performances and compositions ("new music approaches to an old American tradition")
