The Matter of Tempo in The Sacred Harp

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Left: Benjamin Franklin White, “senior author” of The Sacred Harp, and his wife Thurza Golightly White. Courtesy of the grandchildren of George Pullen Jackson. Right: William Walker, compiler of four shape-note tunebooks including The Southern Harmony (1835) and The Christian Harmony (1867). Courtesy of the grandchildren of George Pullen Jackson.

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