Shape Notes Hymns Music

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Top: Society: Religion_and_Spirituality: Christianity: Music: Hymns: Shape_Notes:

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• - Includes MIDI hymn tunes from: many shaped-note books, some forgotten Mason and Hastings works, and original compositions.
  
• - Features three MP3 recordings; discussion of recording techniques.
  
• - [lyrics; indexes; MIDI; scores; shape notes; hymnals] Facsimile of this hymnal once popular in the southern United States.
  
• - [hymnals; recordings] (commercial content) Information about a chorus, and an expanded reprint of an early-19th-century hymnal.
  
• - (checklist of books in the Rare Book Collection of Alderman Library University of Virginia)
  
• - Includes links, calendar of events, and sales of books and recordings.
  
• - Describes printed music, literature, recordings, and other resources relating to Sacred Harp singing and other shape-note music
  
• - Extensive historical article.
  
• - Includes several hymns reset using a shape-note font.
  
• - [reviews of recordings from the Library of Congress]
  
• - [Aiken 7-shape music] Brief history, 10 sample scores, facsimile of old music instruction book.
  
• - Features extensive, searchable, downloadable database of recordings; singings and conventions in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Area; links.
  
• - Article including description of shape-note traditions and archival photos.
  
• - [indexes; hymnals] New edition of an early-19th-century American hymnal.
  
• - Plans for a reprint by the UT-Knoxville press; other NHC resources.
  
• - Etext and digital facsimile of 1860 edition.