singing-school

“FORMS AND CEREMONIES are at a discount, and generosity has its home in the pure air of the Rocky Mountains,” wrote Thomas Dimsdale, Oxford graduate, singing-school teacher, and editor of the Montana Post in 1865.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

Southern Harmony, like other singing-school tunebooks of its day, begins with an introduction to music reading, including the use of shape notes.

The Southern Harmony 1809-1875 1966

Walker also published melodies from oral tradition harmonized by others, including Spartanburg area musicians of the singing-school shape-note tradition, such as Matilda Durham Hoy (The Promised Land) and James Christopher (Wondrous Love).

The Southern Harmony 1809-1875 1966

From about 1800, singing-school tunebooks bagan to be published in a four-shape system of shaped noteheads corresponding to the then current Elizabethan solfa solmization.

The Southern Harmony 1809-1875 1966

Walker and other rural-oriented singing-school teacher/compilers drew from the rich oral tradition of

The Southern Harmony 1809-1875 1966

Walker's Southern Harmony (1835) and his later Christian Harmony (1867) were two tunebooks, among hundreds of singing-school collections published in America since the days of William Billings in the latter

The Southern Harmony 1809-1875 1966

They were Sue Barnes, whom Hugh usually counted on as his partner when any dance was given in the country, or at singing-school during the winter evenings; Ivy Middleton, Thad's choice for company, because she was both jolly and genial; and pretty

The Chums of Scranton High on the Cinder Path Donald Ferguson

The old-fashioned singing-school was one of the most popular of local social institutions; something is needed to fill its place.

Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe

The old-fashioned singing-school filled a real need and its passing has left a distinct gap.

Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe

Christian Endeavor and Junior Endeavor meetings, sewing classes, a literary society and singing-school.

The American Missionary — Volume 54, No. 2, April, 1900 Various