Sacred Harp singing, from the Puritans to the digital age
- Fasola.org
- The most comprehensive web resource for Sacred Harp singing. Includes lists of local singings all over the country, lots of historical and cultural information, and all sorts of other information.
- Warren Steel's Sacred
Harp Pages
- Immense amounts of all sorts of information on Sacred Harp, up to and
including recipies for dinner on the grounds.
- Online Concordance
- Know one line of a song but not the rest? Looking for other words by your favorite author (Billings, Watts, ...)? Want to find other tunes with the same meter to set words to? The Online Concordance is the 1991 edition of the Sacred Harp, fully searchable by keyword, poet, composer, meter, title, first line, or page.
- A Plea
For Participation
- An essay by Ginnie Ely specifically directed at those who are new to Sacred
Harp; those whose family did not sing this music and have discovered it on
their own.
- Loud Hymns.Com
- Photos and sounds of many conventions across the country, compiled and
maintained by Tom Mitchell.
- Shapenote History and Pictures
- Ishmael the Fiddler has a very nice set of pages on shapenote history (although they warn of perpetual construction) and some nice examples of the development of the written music.
- The Southern Harmony
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The online index to The Southern Harmony, searchable by tune name or first line; also includes some scores and midi files.
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Chicago Tribune Article
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Before the 1999 Midwest Convention, Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tribune printed this article.
- Shapenote Recording Index
- Searchable Shape Notes Recording Index.