Description
DESCRIPTION
The Sacred Harp singing style is unique to America, treasured today both for it's hauntingly attractive harmonies and it's links to a seemingly lost rural past. Evolving from church singing-school organizations of the 18th century, it was and remains a community movement, with all-day singing conventions as much a social as a musical gathering, these days concentrated mainly in the Deep South. The main source for material is still B. F. White & E. J. King's 'The Sacred Harp' - first published in 1844. The term 'shape note' comes from the book's system of musical notation - symbols being used rather than the more familiar 'staff' method. Here, from it's heartlands of Georgia and Alabama - but also from locations as far-flung as New York and Indiana, is a singular music for too long thrust to the sidelines.
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1 Amazing Grace - Dye's Sacred Harp Singers
2 How Firm a Foundation - Dye's Sacred Harp Singers
3 Soar Away - Denson Quartet
4 Sabbath Morning - Denson Quartet
5 Rejoicing on the Way - Fa Sol la Singers
6 Jesus Walks with Me - Fa Sol la Singers
7 Happy on the Way - Fa Sol la Singers
8 Weeping Mary - Roswell Sacred Harp Quartet
9 Odem - Roswell Sacred Harp Quartet
10 Bound for Canaan - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
11 Antioch - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
12 Sweet Prospect - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
13 The Old Ship of Zion - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
14 Sweet Canaan - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
15 Exhilaration - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
16 Long Sought Home - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
17 Weeping Pilgrim - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
18 The Loved Ones - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
19 My God the Spring of All My Joys - Elder Golden P Harris
20 My Christian Friends in Bonds of Love - Elder Golden P Harris
21 Rocky Road - Alabama Sacred Heart Singers
22 Present Joys - Alabama Sacred Heart Singers
23 Religion Is a Fortune - Alabama Sacred Heart Singers
24 Cuba - Alabama Sacred Heart Singers
25 The Happy Sailor - Denson's Sacred Heart Singers of Arley, Alabama
26 Protection - Denson's Sacred Heart Singers of Arley, Alabama
27 Ninety Fifth - Denson's Sacred Heart Singers of Arley, Alabama
28 The Christian Hope - Denson's Sacred Heart Singers of Arley, Alabama
29 Bells of Love - Middle Georgia Singing Convention No
30 Walking with My King - Middle Georgia Singing Convention No
31 Return Again - Okehatlanta Sacred Harp Singers
32 Penick - Okeh-Atlanta Sacred Harp Singers
33 Edom - Okeh-Atlanta Sacred Harp Singers
34 Parting Hand - Okeh-Atlanta Sacred Harp Singers
35 Blooming Youth - Huggins & Philips Sacred Harp Singers
36 Lovers of the Lord - Huggins & Philips Sacred Harp Singers
37 The Christian's Flight - Lee Wells & His Jasper Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
38 North Port - Lee Wells & His Jasper Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
39 The Promised Land - Pioneer Sacred Harp Singers
40 Raymond - Pioneer Sacred Harp Singers
41 The Heavenly Port - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
42 Hallelujah - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
43 The Golden Harp - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
44 Heaven's My Home - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
45 I'm a Long Time Travelling Away from Home - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
46 I Belong to This Band - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
47 Sharpsburg - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
48 Murillo's Lesson - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
49 Jewett - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
50 Pisgah - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
51 Primrose Hill - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
52 Weeping Mary - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
53 Penick - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
54 Sweet Morning - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
55 Esther - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
56 Pryel's Hymn - Daniels-Deason Sacred Harp Singers
57 Hallelujah - Daniels-Deason Sacred Harp Singers
58 Primrose Hill - Daniels-Deason Sacred Harp Singers
59 Coronation - Daniels-Deason Sacred Harp Singers
60 Jubilee - Bassett Quartet
61 I'm Not Ashamed of Jesus - Bassett Quartet
62 Land of Beulah - Dye's Sacred Harp Singers
63 Calvary - Dye's Sacred Harp Singers
64 Victoria - Dye's Sacred Harp Singers
65 Bethel - Dye's Sacred Harp Singers
66 Conversion - Denson-Parris Sacred Harp Singers
67 The Good Old Way - Denson-Parris Sacred Harp Singers
68 The Heavenly Port - Denson-Parris Sacred Harp Singers
69 Blooming Youth - Denson-Parris Sacred Harp Singers
70 Ragan - Denson-Parris Sacred Harp Singers
71 Raymond - Denson-Parris Sacred Harp Singers
72 Christian Soldier - Denson Quartet
73 I'm on My Journey Home - Denson Quartet
74 Wondrous Love - Georgia Sacred Harp Quartet
75 Windham - Georgia Sacred Harp Quartet
76 Liberty - Moody Bible Sacred Harp Singers
77 In That Morning - Moody Bible Sacred Harp Singers
78 Soft Music - Original Sacred Harp Choir
79 Canaans Land - Original Sacred Harp Choir
80 Pleyel's Hymn - Original Sacred Harp Choir
81 New Britain - Original Sacred Harp Choir
