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Many of the shape-note songs were written by English composers such as Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley, set to old English dance tunes and carried from churches in rural England by colonial settlers.
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The Internet has helped create a revival for shape-note singing, connecting singers and bringing them together for events across the country.
Shape-Note Singing Lives On Through Small Dedicated Following The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The tradition was carried to the South, where many churches continued the shape-note a capella singing of the hymns with complex harmonies.
Shape-Note Singing Lives On Through Small Dedicated Following The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Cook took up shape-note singing after moving from Michigan to Atlanta in 1995, and now teaches it and leads singings.
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The songs may have archaic, cryptic names such as "Old Hundred," better known in many hymnbooks as the doxology; "Amazing Grace" appears in shape-note books as "New Britain."
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"It was once common throughout the South," said Cook, a shape-note singing aficionado who brought his lessons to the former church that's now part of the University of Alabama at Birmingham campus.
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Throughout the 1800s, the mournful harmonious sounds of a capella shape-note singing reverberated in churches throughout the South.
Shape-Note Singing Lives On Through Small Dedicated Following The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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One night, the group had a sacred harp singing, using shape-note songbooks.
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One night, the group had a sacred harp singing, using shape-note songbooks.
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There's actually theyre doing five-part harmonies and most people today thinks that four is the limit when a quartet sings, that theyve got all the parts but the Sacred Harp or shape-note singing people use the five harmonies and some of them are extremely high with the ladies parts and none of them is low as the quartets practice today.
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