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.

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 ...

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 ...