Category: National Newsletter
Featured articles from past issues of the National Sacred Harp Newsletter.
The Composer’s Debt to Shape-Notes
A note from the editor: In this essay, first published in the National Sacred Harp Newsletter 2, no. 6 (November 1986), Raymond Hamrick analyzes published scholarship and an interview with Hugh McGraw to argue convincingly that shape-notes aid in composition, not just in sight-singing. In addition to assembling such a compelling case, Hamrick points the…
The Pitcher’s Role in Sacred Harp Music
A note from the editor: Raymond C. Hamrick’s “The Pitcher’s Role in Sacred Harp Music” was originally published in the National Sacred Harp Newsletter’s January 1986 issue (vol. 1, no. 8). Based on data Hamrick collected at Georgia Sacred Harp singings in 1985, the article was the first comprehensive study of keying Sacred Harp music. It…
To Connecticut and Back: Notes from a Bus Trip to the 1985 New England Convention
A note from the editor: The article below is one of two in this issue reprinted from the vol. 1, no. 8 issue of the National Sacred Harp Newsletter (January 1986). This piece originally appeared on pages 6–7. It has been edited to correct typos, but otherwise I have left it just as it appeared.…
Citizen of the Month: Lonnie Rogers
A note from the editor: Life-long Sacred Harp singer and much-loved resident of Ephesus, Georgia, Lonnie Rogers passed away on February 15, 2012 just a few months short of his 96th birthday. His daughter, Karen Rollins, wrote about her father for the June 1988 issue of the National Sacred Harp Newsletter. To honor the memory…
Dedication of the B. F. White Historical Marker
A note from the editor: with each new collection of posts we will be featuring articles from past issues of the National Sacred Harp Newsletter—a feature we are calling “National Newsletter.” The article below was originally printed on pages 4–5 of Vol. 1, No. 2 (July 1985) of the Newsletter. It has been edited to…