Author: Nathan Rees
Register Now for the “Revising The Sacred Harp” Symposium
Join us at an all-day symposium, “Revising The Sacred Harp,” on Friday, Sept. 12. Please purchase your ticket in advance to secure your spot. The location of the symposium is TBA. The new location be near the original planned location at Emory University. The symposium will feature presentations on all aspects of the new revision of The Sacred Harp: 2025…
Introducing the Page Design of The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition
Ready for a sneak peek at the new page design for The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition? Here is a selection of pages including plain and fuging tunes, a two-song page, and a couple of extra-challenging typesetting examples, including 377, “Eternal Praise,” and 419, “Melancholy Day.” Our team of designers created a legible, balanced, and inviting…
Pricing for The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition
The Sacred Harp Publishing Company is pleased to announce that the price for The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition will be $20 per book in the United States and £20 in the United Kingdom when it debuts in September 2025. We will also offer a reduced rate of $10/£10 for loaner books for local singing groups.…
Introducing “Collins,” a New Shape-Note Music Typeface for The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition
Did you know that The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition will feature a brand new, bespoke music font? The Sacred Harp Publishing Company commissioned music type designer Jeff Kellem to develop a font with noteheads in every shape and duration along with clefs, rests, and numerous other musical symbols. Kellem worked with a team of Sacred…
Introducing Vol. 6, No. 2 of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company Newsletter
The thirteenth issue of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company Newsletter shares Sacred Harp’s long history in Mississippi as well as the story of its more recent arrival in Illinois. It features tributes to departed friends and offers new insights on Sacred Harp harmony and how songs’ music and texts work together. Our issue begins with…
Introducing Vol. 6, No. 1 of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company Newsletter
The twelfth issue of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company Newsletter shares the stories of composers and singers, printers and cooks who contributed to Sacred Harp in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—some well-known and others largely forgotten. It also features the growing collection and programs of the Sacred Harp Museum. Our issue begins with the history…
Tubby Walton, “An Indispensable Head Waiter” at the 1935 United Convention
A note in the minutes of the 1935 United Sacred Harp Musical Association suggests that the hardships of holding an urban Sacred Harp convention were as real eighty years ago as they are today. Singers today may be surprised to realize that a singing might rely on catered food even during the Depression. T. B.…
From the Collection: An Earlier Sacred Harp
The Sacred Harp that we sing from today was not the first book by that name. In fact, it was not even the first oblong shape-note tunebook with that title. A decade before B. F. White published the first edition of The Sacred Harp, brothers Lowell and Timothy Mason published their own Sacred Harp in…
Introducing Vol. 5, No. 1 of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company Newsletter
The tenth issue of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company Newsletter looks behind the scenes, exploring fascinating processes of composing, singing, and documenting Sacred Harp. Our issue opens with Andy Ditzler’s interview with prolific Sacred Harp photographer Robert Chambless, showing how Robert captures “all the in-between moments, the physicality, the spills as well as the smiles,…
Introducing Vol. 4, No. 2 of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company Newsletter
The ninth issue of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company Newsletter shares stories from Sacred Harp’s past, explores the leading choices of singers today, and offers thoughts on how our singings continue to expand as well as suggestions for how each singer might contribute to Sacred Harp’s future. The issue begins with Warren Steel’s account of…
