Another shape note tunebook named The Sacred Harp ( 1844 ) by Georgia residents Benjamin Franklin White and Elisha J.

Its first recording is an a cappella version from 1922 by the Sacred Harp Choir.

Moyers interviewed Collins, Cash, opera singer Jessye Norman, Appalachian folk musician Jean Ritchie and her family, white Sacred Harp singers in Georgia, black Sacred Harp singers in Alabama, and a prison choir at the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville.

This verse is also featured in William Billing's popular Sacred Harp song " David's Lamentation ", first published in 1778.

Sacred Harp, a type of religious folk music, is an a cappella style of religious singing, but is more often sung at singing conventions than at church services.

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* 1902 The Southwest Texas Sacred Harp Singing Convention is established in McMahan.

* Sacred Harp

* W. M. Cooper, a Dothan resident, released a revision of B. F. White's popular tune book The Sacred Harp in 1902.

In 1944, a memorial marker was erected on the courthouse square " To the memory of the Denson Brothers – Seaborn M. Denson ( 1854-1936 ) and Thomas J. Denson ( 1863-1935 ) who devoted their lives and gifts to composing and teaching American religious folk music as embodied in the Sacred Harp, in most of the Southern States, but mostly in Alabama.

The One Hundredth Anniversary of the Sacred Harp while ' Uncle Seab ' and ' Uncle Tom ' sing on – ' way over in the promised land '.

Hoboken has a continuous tradition of periodic singings from the Sacred Harp that has continued for over 150 years.

* Sommers, Laurie Kay ( 2010 ) " Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing " Southern Spaces ISSN: 1551-2754

* Sacred Harp in Hoboken: radio programs, video documentary

Bremen is the home of Hugh McGraw, a noted scholar of American hymnody and the foremost expert in the Sacred Harp tradition of shape note singing.

McGraw's Sacred Harp Publishing company is located in Bremen, as is the Holly Springs Primitive Baptist church, where he leads monthly singing schools and an annual all-day singing held in early June.

* Hugh McGraw, Sacred Harp singing master and composer

Annual events in the city of Henderson include the Heritage Syrup Festival in November, celebrating the east Texas tradition of syrup making, and the East Texas Sacred Harp Convention in August.

Several of Cowper's hymns, as well as others originally published in the " Olney Hymns ," are today preserved in the Sacred Harp.

Ewan sang Sacred Harp with Calum MacColl and Mike Seeger.

Much of this early American music still survives in Sacred Harp.

For instance, in the four-shape tradition used in the Sacred Harp and elsewhere, the notes of a C major scale are notated and sung as follows:

The song was later provided with religious ( as opposed to patriotic ) words by Philip Doddridge, and in this form is a favorite of Sacred Harp singers.

When Sacred Harp singers begin a song, they normally start by singing it with the appropriate syllable for each pitch, using the shapes to guide them.

As time passed, Sacred Harp singers doubtless became aware that what they were singing had become quite distinct from contemporary tastes.

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.

In the original core geographic area of Sacred Harp singing, northern Alabama and Georgia, the singers did not in general take to the Cooper book, as they felt it deviated too far from the original tradition.

Ultimately, a committee headed by Joseph Stephen James produced an edition entitled Original Sacred Harp ( 1911 ) that largely satisfied the wishes of this community of singers.

Walker's compositions and arrangements are widely sung today by Sacred Harp singers as well as others.

Some claim that he taught more Sacred Harp singers than any other man.

The East Texas Musical Convention, now usually called the East Texas Sacred Harp Convention, is an annual gathering of shape note singers.

Some renditions of this hymn ( for example, the practice of Sacred Harp singer ) follow a practice recommended by Billings himself and include male singers on the treble, singing an octave down, as well as female singers on the tenor part, singing an octave higher.

*" Africa " as sung by a large assembly of Sacred Harp singers ( Minnesota State Sacred Harp Singing Convention )

Although J. L. White was the most musically eminent son of the tradition's revered founder, his tastes in sacred music were quite different from his father's -- and indeed, from a great number of other Sacred Harp singers.

:" Most singers held fast to their disintegrating 1869 editions rather than convert to The New Sacred Harp.

" The Mulberry River Convention, also of Alabama, asked that any new songs be " composed by Sacred Harp singers only.

In just two years, J. L. White made three attempts to revise the Sacred Harp in a manner that would satisfy Sacred Harp singers.

It is an annual gathering whose purposes are the singing of Sacred Harp music and fostering of bonds of fellowship among singers.

Heider is a choral conductor at the Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts, sings alto with the Chicago Sacred Harp singers and researches shape-note singing related to the Midwest.

Methodism also buttresses this argument with the leg of Sacred Tradition of the Wesleyan Quadrilateral by citing the Church Fathers, many of whom concur with this view.

This name, based on the black colour of his cassock, was used to suggest a parallel between him and the " White Pope " ( since the time of Pope Pius V the Popes dresses in white ) and the Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples ( formerly called the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith ), whose red cardinal's cassock gave him the name of the " Red Pope " in view of the authority over all territories that were not considered in some way Catholic.

Without the Sacred to confer an absolute, objective value upon historical events, modern man is left with " a relativistic or nihilistic view of history " and a resulting " spiritual aridity ".

Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts which advocated a view midway toward biblical minimalism and caused an uproar among many conservatives.

In his 2005 book The Sacred Neuron: The Extraordinary New Discoveries Linking Science and Religion he suggests that it is incorrect to view faith and reason as opposing functions.

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

In Sacred Gillman writes that the traditional Jewish view of the Torah being orally dictated to Moses on Mount Sinai, and passed down to us today in an unbroken chain of transmission, is erroneous, and one that cannot be maintained in the light of modern Jewish theology and higher criticism of the Bible, such as the documentary hypothesis.

Eliot ’ s essay “ Hamlet and His Problems ” in his book The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism discusses his view of Shakespeare ’ s incomplete development of Hamlet ’ s emotions.

In November 1922, the Holy See's Sacred Congregation of the Council ( now called the Congregation for Bishops ) gave approval to the practice whereby " at least in religious houses and institutions for youth, all people assisting at the Mass make the responses at the same time with the acolytes ", a practice that it declared praiseworthy in view of the evident desire expressed in papal documents " to instil into the souls of the faithful a truly Christian and collective spirit, and prepare them for active participation.

Aerial view of Sacred Falls ( currently the only way to view the falls )