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- Introducing Vol. 6, No. 2 of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company Newsletter
- Shape-Note Singing in Mississippi: A Preliminary History
- Building Community Harmony: Thirty-Three Years of Illinois State Sacred Harp Conventions
- Remembering Toney Smith: Singer, Leader, Teacher, Organizer, Reviser, and Encourager
- B. M. Smith: A Loving, Caring Spirit and Front Bench Stalwart
- In Memory of Earlis McGraw, July 27, 1935–June 8, 2016
- What I’ve Learned from My Sacred Harp Elders
- Bound Together: What Makes an Effective Pairing of Text and Tune
- The “Stacked Fourths” Chord: A Canonical Discord in The Sacred Harp
- Notes on Repairing Songbooks
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- Of Harmony and Composition (4)
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Monthly Archives: December 2016
The Making of The Georgian Harmony
We had sung both “Lloyd” and “Christian’s Farewell” (pp. 503 and 347 in The Sacred Harp) late in the singing at Haynes Creek on the first Sunday of September, 2005, and as we left the building I told Raymond how … Continue reading
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Help Me to Sing: Raymond Hamrick as Composer and Teacher
Raymond Hamrick was a master craftsman. For close to eight decades, he worked as a jeweler repairing watches at Andersen’s Jewelers. For most of those years, he also used this eye for detail to craft and teach the art of … Continue reading
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