James Weldon Johnson’s poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” set to music by his brother John Rosamond, was first presented as a hymn, then adopted as a ...

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

A new edition of “The Sacred Harp,” a Christian hymnal first published in 1844, is being released this year. It helps carry on the more than 180-year-old American folk singing tradition that is ...

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. Karlsberg, a committee ...

(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.

Why Sacred Harp Singers Are Revamping an Iconic Pre-Civil War Hymnal ... songs using the book's unique musical notations, sounding first its shape notes — fa, sol, la and mi — and then its lyrics.

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. Karlsberg, a committee ...