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Sacred Harp, 1991 (Online Index) [Add to My Praize]
http://fasola.org/index/0Index.html
[indexes; hymnals] New edition of an early-19th-century American hymnal.
Shape Note Resources [Add to My Praize]
[bibliography; links; hymnology; organizations; singing schedules] Definitive guide to "Sacred Harp" and related musical traditions.
Shape of Things To Come [Add to My Praize]
[Aiken 7-shape music] Brief history, 10 sample scores, facsimile of old music instruction book.
Shape-note Hymnals [Add to My Praize]
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/MusicLib/collect/shape.html
(checklist of books in the Rare Book Collection of Alderman Library University of Virginia)
Singing Schools in Nova Scotia [Add to My Praize]
http://www.auracom.com/~dowland/articles_early_music.html
Article including description of shape-note traditions and archival photos.
Singing the Sacred Harp [Add to My Praize]
http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/feature/sacred-harp.html
[reviews of recordings from the Library of Congress]
Southern Harmony, 1854 (William Walker) [Add to My Praize]
http://ccel.org/s/southern_harmony/sharm/
[lyrics; indexes; MIDI; scores; shape notes; hymnals] Facsimile of this hymnal once popular in the southern United States.
Southern Harmony: Introduction to the 4th Edition [Add to My Praize]
http://www.apadrecordings.com/southarm.htm
Extensive historical article.
United Kingdom Shape-Note Page [Add to My Praize]
http://www.ukshapenote.org.uk/index.html
Includes links, calendar of events, and sales of books and recordings.
Yankee Ingenuity in Music Education: Fasola and the Shape-Note Singing Tradition [Add to My Praize]
http://www.rochester.edu/Eastman/MusicEducation/fasola.html
Student paper at Eastman School of Music.
