WHAT IS SACRED HARP MUSIC?
The Sacred Harp is a body of American sacred music first published in the early 1800’s. The harmony is four-aprt, and singers sit in chairs in a square facing inwards. The music is spiritual, democratic, alive and infectious. And anyone can sing it! “It’s a kind of music that most Americans probably know without knowing that they know it- in any case they recognize it as elemental, from home, from roots.” the Boston Globe.
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The term “Sacred Harp” refers to a tradition of choral shape-note music. It has nothing to do with harps–or any other type of instrumentation. It is a capella vocal music which traditionally has no further accompaniment. For a much more detailed explanation of Sacred Harp music, please visit the fasola.org website, since any basic information I relate here may seem redundant by comparison.
