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 ...

King, revisions of the shape-note hymnal ... reads the songs using the book’s unique musical notation, sounding first its shape notes — fa, sol, la and mi — and then its lyrics.

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

Isaac Green, 34, flips through his personal copy of "The Sacred Harp," a shape-note hymnal linked to a more than 180-year-old American folk singing tradition, at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist ...

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