David,
Some of the professional choral groups such as the Hilliard Ensemble
have recorded shape-note singing, but most of the fasola community
laugh at them. To bring a trained voice into a shape-note sing, or to
perform that music in any way, is to completely miss the point.
I was thinking
Arthur, and list,
Update on shape-note. I've emailed the convention and they gave me a web
site (http://mysite.verizon.net/gssh). A bit more than three quarters of the
way down the home page are two sample songs you can play to hear their sound
(and there is a lot of info on the Sacred Harp -
Yes, Jon, this is music for that old-time religion. I expect the
practitioners today constitute a cult following, like those drum and bugle
corps who choreograph all their march steps, or the Barbershop Quartet
Society. I do know that Sacred Harp refers to an early collection of shape
note
On Monday, May 3, 2004, at 04:31 AM, Jon Murphy wrote:
...I warn you, don't play the music if your taste is narrow. They have
but one
volume, shouting. But if you listen carefully you'll hear some musical
values of an old form. The harmonies aren't complex, but they do move
within
the
On Monday, May 3, 2004, at 07:33 AM, Arthur Ness (boston) wrote:
Yes, Jon, this is music for that old-time religion. I expect the
practitioners today constitute a cult following, like those drum and
bugle
corps who choreograph all their march steps, or the Barbershop Quartet
Society.
The
You wrote:
Some of the professional choral groups such as the Hilliard Ensemble
have recorded shape-note singing, but most of the fasola community
laugh at them. To bring a trained voice into a shape-note sing, or to
perform that music in any way, is to completely miss the point.
His
Quite right. I am sure if Billings could have secured trained singers,
he would have welcomed them with open arms. With Sacred Harp, the Music
and The Event are very different things. The music is just what the
printed page says it is, and you may do with it what you will. However
a
Once again, the academic lute world shows how inept they are at doing
anything beyond studying what other people do naturally.
No, Howard is not quite right. He doesn't know what he's talking
about. What he knows about the point of shape-note singing events is
precisely zero.
But that
Arthur,
I'll note the date, it would be interesting and Montclair is only about an
hour away. I know a bit of shaped note, and of sacred harp the harp has
nothing to do with the instrument. One of the characteristics is that the
singers are in a circle, so as best to involve all in their paeans
There was some mention of this on the Lute List recently, and I thought
some might be interested in this convention. Besides it's free. Maybe Jon
will take it in and give us a report, since it _is_ called the Sacred
Harp.g I think shape note singing is still even more popular in the
South.
ajn
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