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

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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 ...