Ten thousand copies of The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition have been distributed in just over six months since the debut of the new book in Atlanta! Attendance at singings is up, and the excitement of singing new songs by both living and historical composers is palpable. Thank you for your overwhelming support and for your warm embrace of the new edition, the first revision in thirty-four years!
The third printing was completed in February, and books are available for immediate order and shipment worldwide from our website. Introductory prices are continuing: individual books are $20 plus shipping, and cases of eight books are $160 with free domestic shipping and $40 shipping to most international locations. Permanently-marked loaner books are still available for $80 per case. You’ll find a link to the loaner-book request form on the ordering page on our website.
Thank you for your feedback on the binding and print quality. We have worked with the printer to make the binding and the gold on the cover more durable by using more pressure to imprint the gold, applying more glue to the book’s spine, and increasing the width of the crimp in the cover, which better protects the binding’s thread. In addition, we have moved the printed content of each page slightly away from the interior “gutter” to improve readability. We are investigating new processes and printers for forthcoming printings, so we welcome your continued feedback about the quality of the first three printings.
The third printing has also afforded us an opportunity to make a few updates, corrections, and minor changes for clarity or consistency:
- Music changes:
- EVENING HYMN (41): update of dotted rhythm in measures 7 (tenor)/8 (alto)/9 (treble)/11 (tenor) to two pairs of dotted eighth notes followed by sixteenth notes.
- BUFFAM FALLS (413): addition of repeat around second part of song.
- Scripture correction:
- SHARPSBURG (39b): correct scripture to “Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.—Ps. 32:1.”
- Attributions updates:
- MINISTER’S FAREWELL (69t): add “Treble and alto The Southern Harmony, 1835.”
- WORCESTER (195): add “Alto The Sacred Harp, 1844.”
- MULBERRY GROVE (482): change “Carmei” to “Carmi” in alto attribution.
- NEW AGATITE (485): add attribution for second verse, “Isaac Watts, 1719.”
- EAGLES’ WINGS (491): update attribution of second verse, “Wesley’s Redemption Hymns, 1747.”
- Spelling and factual corrections:
- Essay on “The Revisions of The Sacred Harp” (9): correct date of Sacred Harp Publishing Company’s transition to nonprofit status to 1974.
- “Rudiments of Music” (15): replace Affetuoso with Affettuoso.
- SOUTHMINSTER (161): change “heaven’s” to “heavens’” in “To the heavens’ high King.”
- SAVE, MIGHTY LORD (70b): change “O” to “Oh” in chorus.
- AND JESUS CRUCIFIED (184): change “forego” to “forgo” in “All thy pleasures I forgo.”
- MONROE (370): change “O” to “Oh” in verse 3 (two instances).
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