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The Sacred Harp is a shape note tunebook, originally compiled in 1844 by Benjamin Franklin White and Elisha J. King in Georgia and used to this day in revised form by Sacred Harp singers throughout America and overseas. This article is a historical overview and listing of the composers and poets who wrote the songs and texts of The Sacred Harp.
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fasola.org. Index of hymnwriters represented in The SacredHarp, 1991 Edition, from fasola.org. Index of composersandhymnwriters represented in the Cooper...
politician, and musician today remembered for his association with the SacredHarp movement. Dumas was the son of Benjamin F. Dumas and Martha Ussery, and through...
was a shape note singing teacher, composer, and a reviser of his father's shape note tunebook known as The SacredHarp. In 1844, three years before J. L...
singing teacher, composer, and a co-issuer, with his father, of the 1870 SacredHarp. He was the second child of Benjamin Franklin White and Thurza Melvina...
September 14, 1935) was a notable Alabama musician and singing school teacher within the SacredHarp tradition. He was the youngest of the four sons of...
1879) was a shape note "singing master", and compiler of the shape note tunebook known as The SacredHarp. He was born near Cross Keys in Union County...
was a clergyman, writer, composer, andhymnwriter. Her brother, Henry East Havergal, was a priest in the Church of England and an organist. When she was...
folk musician Jean Ritchie and her family, white SacredHarp singers in Georgia, black SacredHarp singers in Alabama, and a prison choir at the Texas...
Crossman's hymns are preserved in the SacredHarp. The Young Man's Meditation, or Some Few Sacred Poems upon Select Subjects, and Scriptures. Several of Crossman's...
and figure in the SacredHarp movement J. McRee Elrod (1932–2016), Methodist activist for the Civil Rights Movement, anti-war and gay pride movements...
April 25, 1978) was a figure in the SacredHarp movement. Edwards was the youngest daughter of Thomas Jackson and Amanda Denson; she learned shape note...
The SacredHarp; this is the second most popular song among SacredHarp singers according to the aggregated minutes: "Song Use in The SacredHarp, 1995-2019"...
visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner during the High Middle Ages. She is one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most...
as a student, and another two years as a graduate pupil, during which time she learned to play the piano, organ, harp, and guitar, and became a good soprano...
Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted...
2014. Simon Mills (2019). "Reading Henry Maundrell's Sacred Geography in Eighteenth-Century England and Germany". In Tessa Whitehouse; N. H. Keeble (eds.)...
Dorothy Ann Thrupp, British psalmist, hymnwriter, translator (d. 1847) July 8 – Giorgio Pullicino, Maltese painter and architect (d. 1851) August 1 – Francis...
Presbyterian Trinity Hymnal, and the Methodist Hymns and Psalms. Many of his texts are also used in the American hymnal, The SacredHarp, using what is known...
music, and this is why music forms a central part of Lutheran services to this day. In particular, Luther admired the composers Josquin des Prez and Ludwig...
Pilgrim", rearranged by Benjamin Franklin White and published in the 1850 appendix of The SacredHarp. The book contains 120 Christian hymns whose titles...
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