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The natural path to take — and the one ultimately taken — would be to assert the archaic character of Sacred Harp as an outright virtue.

In this view, Sacred Harp should be treasured as a time-tested musical tradition, standing above current trends of fashion.

The difficulty with adopting traditionalism as a guiding doctrine was that different singers had different opinions about just what form the stable, traditionalized version of Sacred Harp would take.