Christian Harmony Links page
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Jeremiah Ledbetter's
https://shapenotesingings.com/
has information and directions for Sacred Harp and Christian Harmony
singings. (If your singing isn't listed or needs updating,
click the ‘Submit’ button!)
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The “Bremen Robots” (Germany) do Christian Harmony (2010), in English:
https://sevenshapes.sacredharpbremen.org/
The parts are separated and can be listened to individually. Strange sound. Great for practicing. -
Robert Kelley, Rachel Hall and Rebekah Logan have created online
“Indexes for All Editions of William Walker's Christian Harmony”
(by Tune Name, Composer, Meter, and more):
https://christianharmonyindex.com/
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The most comprehensive site on the net for all things shape note, with
a heavy Sacred Harp slant:
https://fasola.org/ -
Martha Beverly's Photo Albums on Flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fasolakazoo/albums/ (requires javascript) -
The site for Quay Smathers Singing School:
https://www.qssingingschool.org -
In November 2015, William Walker's 1873 Christian Harmony was republished as a (almost) facsimile edition. See
http://www.christianharmony1873.org -
Don Wiley found this link to Jesse Aikin's ‘The Christian Minstrel’
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/MillsSpColl.ChriMin -
Don also found ‘The Easy Instructor’ as a downloadable PDF file
https://imslp.org/wiki/The_Easy_Instructor_%28Various%29 -
Ken George suggests this as a great site for recorded singings:
https://www.bostonsing.org -
New Harp sites:
The official website for ‘New Harp of Columbia’
https://www.oldharp.org/
October 2017: Andrew Whaley has created a Facebook page and group.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/oldharp/ -
A link suggested by Lee Craig: CCEL.org has a .pdf of the entire Southern
Harmony available for download and a bunch of recordings from the Big
Singing!
https://www.ccel.org/ -
An article by Dr. John G. Hollingsworth on Shape Note Singing—Christian
Harmony in Newton County, Mississippi
https://www.nchgs.org/html/shape_note_singing.html -
Where Scott got his book rebound; very reasonable prices:
https://www.norrisbookbinding.com/ -
Many field recordings, mostly Sacred Harp but fun to download, sing with,
listen to!
http://pilgrimproduction.org/sacredharp1.html -
The Sacred Harp Composer Index, massaged and sent by Robert Kelley. Thanks for this, it's quite helpful.
Note: very small print, so it fits on one printed page. A PDF file.
If you find other sites of interest, please send a link to the webmaster! I also would like to fix or remove broken links.