The New Harp Of Columbia, Restored Ed
by Ml Swan, Wh Swan
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Author: Ml Swan, Wh SwanEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Facsimile
Published: 2001-11-28
ISBN: 1572331283
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
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Summary: 5 Stars
The New Harp of Columbia is a repository of Odes, Anthems, Fuging pieces, Marching Tunes, Sea Chanteys, Dirges, Folk Tunes, Calvary Tunes put to meter and matched to the prime sermons of the day and written by the tune smiths into hymns. (The Hymn "Amazing Grace," was mixed and matched to a tune New Britain or Middleton is contained therein but not to J. Cowper's Hymn of John Newton's sermon.) This singing school manual breaks the music into separate parts for easy reading and written into character notes or shapes to help distinguish the notes for a people in a time who could not read let a lone read music.
It is part of a two hundred year plus ongoing American social community and spiritual tradition. More information can be found www.oldharp.org or www.fasola.org.
Larry Olszewski- Old Harp Singer
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