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Daniel J. Kushner: The Color and the Shape: Where the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Meets Sacred Harp
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 1 year ago
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Shape notes constitute a style of music notation in which shapes were added to the note heads as a teaching tool for reading music, as well as to foster community involvement in church activities. The first known shape note book, called The Easy
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'Shape-note' singing is making a comeback
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 2 years ago
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Instead, the singers form a hollow square, as they did Saturday at Franklin Park Baptist Church, basses facing the altos, tenors facing the sopranos. Then, one by one, volunteers step into the center to lead the singing, often chopping the air with
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Shape, rattle and roll: The amazing survival of shape-note singing
Gateshead :: United Kingdom | over 2 years ago
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Alfred Hickling tries it Shape note singer and musicologist Tim Eriksen leads the choir. In a disused chapel in Gateshead, the chairs have been set out for an unusual form of service. Members of the congregation sit on four sides of a square, facing
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EBLEN: Shape-note singing is 'like hearing democracy'
Louisville :: KY :: USA | 3 years ago
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Visiting my grandparents was always like a treasure hunt because they never threw away much. I learned about World War II by reading 1940s Life magazines stacked in the basement and about 1930s jazz by playing shellac records on a Eureka Talking
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