Companion to the New Harp of Columbia
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Author
Publication
2003 - University of Tennesee Press, Knoxville
Language
English
Word Count
119,000 words, Guess
Page Count
476 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL22484691M
- ISBN-101572332034
- OCLC Control Number50002436
- Library of Congress Control Number2002009175
- Goodreads1196892
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- LibraryThing4258210
Classifications
- LCCML3188 .H37 2003
Description
"Meticulous in its research, encyclopedic in its detail, this reference volume is the first such work written for a shape-note songbook. Modeled on the various guidebooks to contemporary denominational hymnals, it provides commentary on every text, tune, author, and composer represented in M.L. Swan's New Harp of Columbia, a shape-note book originally published in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1867.". "The shape-note tradition first flourished in the small towns and rural areas of early America. Church-sponsored "singing schools" taught a form of musical notation in which the notes were assigned different shapes to indicate variations in pitch; this method worked well with congregants who had little knowledge of standard musical notation. Today many enthusiasts carry on the shape-note tradition, and The New Harp of Columbia (recently published in a "restored edition" by the University of Tennessee Press) is one of five shape-note singing-manuals still in use."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Companion to the New Harp of Columbia
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