All are welcome to sing shape note music on Sunday, May 17, from 3 to 5:30 p.m. at St. Michael's Episcopal Church, 16 Bradley St., Brattleboro. Shape note singing is powerful, a Capella singing in ...
In shape-note music, the notes are the same as in conventional music, except that instead of an oval, notes have different shapes — a triangle, circle, square or diamond — which correspond to one of ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. For more than 200 years an American style of folk-hymn singing using shape-notes has been kept alive in ...
PITTSBURGH – Alexa Kay is a Quaker, a denomination which has embraced simplicity and shunned more extravagant forms of worship, even singing. Nevertheless, Kay likes to sing, and that’s what led her ...
From left, Zack Allen and Maggie Lauterer pose with MHU students Mikayla Ledford, Taylor Zima, Denise Benson, Megan Walters, Darian Smathers and Caleb Colclasure, as well as June Smathers Jolley and ...
Dec. 24—As haunting harmonies drifted through the rafters of the third-floor attic chapel, echoes of the past rose and fell with the voices signing from the pages of an 1873 shape-note hymnal. The ...
MARS HILL - Western Carolina, and Madison County in particular, boasts a historically important and extensive musical background that dates back generations, chronicled in part by Cecil Sharp's 1932 ...
The Sacred Harp, a book of religious tunes first printed in 1844 is getting an upgrade. And shape note singers who use it are very excited. People who perform a traditional style of American music ...
BREMEN, Ga. — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred Harp” and its ...
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