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Bloomington Indiana Shape Note Singers, Old Harp Singing in East Tennessee, Ottawa Shape Note Chorus, Sacred Harp singing in Minneapolis - St. Paul, Sacred Harp Singing in Northeastern Ohio, Sacred Harp Singing in Texas, Sacred Harp, Chattanooga, TN

Harmonia Sacra Hymns (Shape Notes)

http://www.goshen.edu/~lonhs/Practical_Musician/Shapenotes.html

Includes several hymns reset using a shape-note font.

Isaac Watts Fan Club

http://www.geocities.com/mlmoore_99.geo/

Includes MIDI hymn tunes from: many shaped-note books, some forgotten Mason and Hastings works, and original compositions.

New Harp of Columbia

http://members.aol.com/RSRICHMOND/newharp.html

Plans for a reprint by the UT-Knoxville press; other NHC resources.

Northern Harmony, 1993

http://www.northernharmony.pair.com/

[hymnals; recordings] (commercial content) Information about a chorus, and an expanded reprint of an early-19th-century hymnal.

Recording Sacred Harp in Ottawa

http://www.orange-carb.org/~cmh/SacredHarp/recordings.html

Features three MP3 recordings; discussion of recording techniques.

Rising Dove: Shape Notes

http://www.shapenotes.com/shapenotes/sitemap.asp

Features extensive, searchable, downloadable database of recordings; singings and conventions in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Area; links.

Sacred Harp

http://lib0131.lib.msu.edu/dmc/ssb/public/all/sacredharp/harp.html

Etext and digital facsimile of 1860 edition.

Sacred Harp and Shape-Note Music Resources

http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/resource/

Describes printed music, literature, recordings, and other resources relating to Sacred Harp singing and other shape-note music

Sacred Harp Singing

http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/harp.html

Describes Sacred Harp singing, a form of traditional music in the United States: repertory, notation, research; schedules; net resources; and other general information.

Sacred Harp, 1991 (Online Index)

http://fasola.org/index/0Index.html

[indexes; hymnals] New edition of an early-19th-century American hymnal.

Shape Note Resources

http://fasola.org/

[bibliography; links; hymnology; organizations; singing schedules] Definitive guide to "Sacred Harp" and related musical traditions.

Shape of Things To Come

http://shapenote.tripod.com/

[Aiken 7-shape music] Brief history, 10 sample scores, facsimile of old music instruction book.

Shape-note Hymnals

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/MusicLib/guides/shape.html

(checklist of books in the Rare Book Collection of Alderman Library University of Virginia)