In the movie Cold Mountain, news that the Civil War has started comes as residents of a small North Carolina town are charging through I'm Going Home in the music's rough-edged vocal style. American ...

When the great American song collector Alan Lomax travelled to the Deep South in 1959 he found a world of rural sacred song that had been hidden for generations. Inside a country church in the low red ...

Atlanta - More than 700 singers convened in Atlanta this month to celebrate the latest edition of the songbook at the heart of one of the country's oldest Christian music traditions. The Sacred Harp, ...

Surrounded by other singers arranged in a square, Judy Hauff rocks heel to toe, rhythmically slashes the air with one arm and sings "Fa la sol la sol." This is "shape note," an a cappella, traditional ...

About a year-and-a-half ago, I went through a devastating breakup and, soon after, began a love affair with perhaps the strangest hobby an ex-yeshiva girl could imagine: Sacred Harp singing.

BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — “The Sacred Harp” hymnal is beloved by those who sing from it, carrying on the Christian songbook's more than 180-year-old legacy. They are young and old — and all ages in between.

Observing a Sacred Harp singing session is quite different from any other performance experience. Singers are seated in a large square facing each other, taking sides based on their voice range as ...

Devotees of a New England tradition called “Sacred Harp” singing are coming to the city this weekend to indulge their musical passions. Hundreds of singers from across the Northeast, Canada and the ...

BREMEN, Ga. — “The Sacred Harp” hymnal is beloved by those who sing from it, carrying on the Christian songbook's more than 180-year-old legacy. They are young and old — and all ages in between. Some ...

Principally for 4 voices (SATB). Rev. ed. of: Original sacred harp. Denson revision, 1987 ed., 1987, c1971. "First compiled in 1844 by Benjamin Franklin White."--Preface. Shape-note notation.

New Age Hymns, Instrumental Buddhist Music, Asian Songs, Tibetan Music. Tibetan Music: Harp Music Tibetan, Cosmic Music, ...