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

The Sacred Harp” is a pre-Civil War compilation of sacred songs that uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds, and it is getting an update.

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

Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred Harp” and its music notes ...

Many of its lyrics were composed by Christian reformers from England, such as Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley, he said. It was rarely used during church services. Instead, the hymnal was part of ...

Many of its lyrics were composed by Christian reformers from England, such as Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley, he said. It was rarely used during church services. Instead, the hymnal was part of ...

King, revisions of the shape-note hymnal ... music and this community,” he said. Matt Hinton, a shape-note singer, leads a song at a Sacred Harp singing event held at Holly Springs Primitive ...