GOSPEL SONGS AND HYMNS, No. 1: SHAPED NOTES. For the Sunday School, Prayer Meeting, Social Meeting, General Song Service

by Holsinger, George B

First Edition

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Book description: Mount Morris, Illinois: Brethren Publishing House, 1898. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Very Good. Covers scuffed at corners. Unpaginated; contains words and shaped-note music in treble and bass clef lines to 237 hymns. 8.5" x 5.75". Shaped Note singing (also known as Sacred Harp or Fasola) is one of the oldest styles of American music, originating in the Southern states. Each note has a distinctive shape, so that a person with no musical training can look at it and instantly tell what pitch it is. The music is arranged by notes on a scale that goes fa-sol-la-mi. The shape for fa is a triangle, sol an oval, la a rectangle, and mi a diamond. At a "singing," the singers face each other in a square: basses on one side, then trebles, then tenors, then altos. There is no instrumental accompaniment because the human voice is considered the "Sacred Harp." [Explanation courtesy of Kay Cotterill, Lismore, Australia.]

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