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Religion is a fortune : sacred harp singing : various groups : early 1900s.
Streaming audio Available online
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- Sound recording
- Series:
- Music online: American song.
- Music online: American song
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church music--United States.
- Church music.
- Sacred songs.
- Hymns, English.
- United States.
- Hymns, English--Southern States.
- Sacred songs--United States.
- Shape-note singing.
- Spirituals (Songs).
- Southern States.
- Genre:
- Sacred songs.
- Hymns, English.
- Sound recordings.
- Hymns.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (52 min.)
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville, Va. : County Records, 2004.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Contains traditional Sacred Harp singing, typically a community musical and social event, held at all-day singings and conventions in the rural South. It is characterized by mass participation, full-voiced singing, lack of instrumental accompaniment, and rotation of songleaders.
- Contents:
- Hallelujah (Daniels-Deason Sacred Harp Singers)
- Long sought home (Allison's Sacred Harp Singers)
- Christian's flight (Lee Well's Sacred Harp Singers)
- Rocky road (Alabama Sacred Harp Singers)
- Calvary (Dye's Sacred Harp Singers)
- I'm on my journey home (Denson's Sacred Harp Singers)
- Happy land (Allison's Sacred Harp Singers)
- Religion is a fortune (Dye's Sacred Harp Singers)
- Happy on the way (Fa-So-La Singers)
- Land of Beulah (Dye's Sacred Harp Singers)
- Pleyel's hymn (Daniels-Deason Sacred Harp Singers)
- Journey Home (Allison's Sacred Harp Singers)
- Edom (Okeh Atlanta Sacred Harp Singers)
- Religion is a fourtune (Lee Wells Sacred Harp Singers)
- Not made with hands (Allison's Sacred Harp Singers)
- Odem (Roswell Sacred Harp Singers)
- Ragan (Denson- Parris Sacred Harp Singers)
- Ninety-fifth (Okeh Atlanta Sacred Harp Singers)
- Promised land (Pioneer Sacred Harp Singers).
- Notes:
- Previously published as compact disc.
- Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2009. (American song). Available via World Wide Web.
- Other Format:
- CO-CD-3532
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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