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Harmonia Sacra Hymns (Shape Notes) [Add to My Praize]
http://www.goshen.edu/~lonhs/Practical_Musician/Shapenotes.html
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Includes several hymns reset using a shape-note font.
Harmonia Sacra, (Charles Southgate; Richmond, Virginia; 1818) [Add to My Praize]
http://www.lib.unc.edu/music/eam/os63/os63.html
[lyrics; hymnals; scores] "original & choice psalms and hymn tunes, odes, anthems, Gloria Patris, and a Te Deum" (Facsimile)
Harmonia Sacra, 1832, etc., reprinted and expanded, 1993 (Handbook) [Add to My Praize]
http://www.nelsging.f2s.com/hs.htm
[indexes; hymnology; hymnals; Mennonite] Extensive Indexes and information about the hymns and their sources.
New Harp of Columbia [Add to My Praize]
http://members.aol.com/RSRICHMOND/newharp.html
Plans for a reprint by the UT-Knoxville press; other NHC resources.
Northern Harmony, 1993 [Add to My Praize]
http://www.northernharmony.pair.com/Booktape.htm
[hymnals; recordings] (commercial content) Expanded reprint of an early-19th-century hymnal.
Ottawa Shape Note Chorus [Add to My Praize]
http://www.orange-carb.org/~cmh/SacredHarp/recordings.html
Features three MP3 recordings; discussion of recording techniques.
Rising Dove: Shape Notes [Add to My Praize]
http://www.shapenotes.com/shapenotes/sitemap.asp
Features extensive, searchable, downloadable database of recordings; singings and conventions in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Area; links.
Rudiments of Music [Add to My Praize]
http://www16.brinkster.com/arminian/Rudiments/Rudiment.htm
(1 vote)
Explains how to read the Aiken 7-shape system of musical notation: based on a 1918 book by John R. Daily.
Sacred Harp and Shape-Note Music Resources [Add to My Praize]
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/resource/
Describes printed music, literature, recordings, and other resources relating to Sacred Harp singing and other shape-note music
Sacred Harp Singing [Add to My Praize]
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/harp.html
Describes Sacred Harp singing, a form of traditional music in the United States: repertory, notation, research; schedules; net resources; and other general information.
