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An 1847 publication of Southern Harmony, showing the title "New Britain" ("Amazing Grace") and shape note music. Play ⓘ. The roots of Southern Harmony singing, like the Sacred Harp, are found in the American colonial era, when singing schools convened to provide instruction in choral singing, especially for use in church services.
William Walker. William Walker (May 6, 1809 – September 24, 1875) was an American Baptist song leader, shape note "singing master", and compiler of four shape note tunebooks, most notable of which are the influential The Southern Harmony and The Christian Harmony, which has been in continuous use (republished 2010).
The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion is the second studio album by American rock band the Black Crowes, released on May 12, 1992.It was the first album by the band to feature Marc Ford on lead guitar, replacing Jeff Cease, who was fired the year before, and the first to feature keyboardist Eddie Harsch.
Close harmony : a history of southern gospel. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807853467. Horn, Dorothy (1970), Sing to Me of Heaven: A Study of Folk and Early American Materials in Three Old Harp Books, Gainesville: University of Florida Press. Jackson, George Pullen (1932), White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands.
"Rose of Sharon" is a sacred choral anthem composed by William Billings.It was first published in The Singing Master's Assistant (1778) as An Anthem, Solomons Songs, Chap 2, [1] and was subsequently published in many early American tunebooks, including The Southern Harmony and The Sacred Harp.
The Missouri Harmony, Allen D. Carden (1820) (reprinted 2005) Songs of Zion, James P. Carrell (1821) Columbian Harmony, William Moore (1825) The Virginia Harmony, James P. Carrell and David L. Clayton (1831) Genuine Church Music: Harmonia Sacra, Joseph Funk (1832) The Southern Harmony, William Walker (1835) Union Harmony, William Caldwell (1837)
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In 1952, American composer and musicologist Charles F. Bryan included "What Wondrous Love Is This" in his folk opera Singin' Billy. [15]In 1958, American composer Samuel Barber composed Wondrous Love: Variations on a Shape Note Hymn (Op. 34), a work for organ, for Christ Episcopal Church in Grosse Pointe, Michigan; the church's organist, an associate of Barber's, had requested a piece for the ...