The more than 180-year-old compilation of sacred songs uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds.

Sacred Harp singers are not historical reenactors, he said. They use their hymnals week after week. Some treat them like scrapbooks or family Bibles, tucking mementos between pages, taking notes in ...

Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, ...

King, revisions of the shape-note hymnal make space for songs by living ... Sacred Harp singing event held at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in Bremen, Ga., on Saturday, March 22, 2025.

Why Sacred Harp Singers Are Revamping an Iconic Pre-Civil War Hymnal BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church ... to specific songs, and favorites in life can become ...

(AP) — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat ... King, revisions of the shape-note hymnal make space for songs by living composers, said Jesse P.

(AP) — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat ... King, revisions of the shape-note hymnal make space for songs by living composers, said Jesse P.