Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: JSP77175
- Format: CD
- UPC: 788065717520
- Street Date: 07/22/14
- PreBook Date: 06/17/14
- Label: JSP Records »
- Genre: Contemporary Christian
- Run Time: mins
- Number of Discs: 4
- Year of Production: 2014
- Box Lot: 6
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA
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Sacred Harp & Shape Note Singing
A Unique American Music
- List Price: $28.99
- Your Price: $28.99
- In Stock: 9
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The Sacred Harp singing style is unique to America, treasured today both for its hauntingly attractive harmonies and its links to a seemingly lost rural past. Evolving from church singing-school organisations 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 BF White & EJ 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 its 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. We hope to help in changing that.
