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

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

King, revisions of the shape-note hymnal make space for songs by living ... tucking mementos between pages, taking notes in the margins and passing them down. Memories and emotions get attached ...

Instead, the hymnal was part of the social fabric of the ... At the museum, Rollins carefully turned the pages of her first edition copy of “The Sacred Harp,” and explained how the tradition ...

Instead, the hymnal was part of the social fabric of the ... At the museum, Rollins carefully turned the pages of her first edition copy of “The Sacred Harp,” and explained how the tradition ...

Instead, the hymnal was part of the social fabric of the ... At the museum, Rollins carefully turned the pages of her first edition copy of “The Sacred Harp,” and explained how the tradition ...

King, revisions of the shape-note hymnal make space for songs by living ... tucking mementos between pages, taking notes in the margins and passing them down. Memories and emotions get attached ...