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A 180-year-old singing tradition is getting a new edition of its beloved hymnal
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It's not a reprint. Why Sacred Harp singers are revamping an iconic pre-Civil War hymnal
BREMEN, Ga. — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of ...
Sacred Harp singers revamping iconic hymnal
A new edition of "The Sacred Harp," a Christian hymnal first published in 1844, is being released this year. It helps carry ...
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The Sacred Harp” is a pre-Civil War compilation of sacred songs that uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares ...
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It's not a reprint. Why Sacred Harp singers are revamping an iconic pre-Civil War hymnal
It was rarely used during church services. Instead, the hymnal was part of the social ... post-Reconstruction, Black singers founded their own conventions, he said. “The Sacred Harp ...