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 ...

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

Groups of Sacred Harp singers are working together to revise their hymnal The a capella tradition uses shape-note music to sight-read ... at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia ...

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 ...

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 ...