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A companion to the New harp of Columbia
- Title
- A companion to the New harp of Columbia / Marion J. Hatchett.
- Author
- Hatchett, Marion J.
- Publication
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2003], ©2003.
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Details
- Description
- xxi, 476 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Meticulous in its research, encyclopedic in its detail, this reference volume is the first such work written for a shape-note songbook. Modeled on the various guidebooks to contemporary denominational hymnals, it provides commentary on every text, tune, author, and composer represented in M.L. Swan's New Harp of Columbia, a shape-note book originally published in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1867.".
- "The shape-note tradition first flourished in the small towns and rural areas of early America. Church-sponsored "singing schools" taught a form of musical notation in which the notes were assigned different shapes to indicate variations in pitch; this method worked well with congregants who had little knowledge of standard musical notation.
- Today many enthusiasts carry on the shape-note tradition, and The New Harp of Columbia (recently published in a "restored edition" by the University of Tennessee Press) is one of five shape-note singing-manuals still in use."--BOOK JACKET.
- Uniform Title
- New harp of Columbia.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-391) and indexes.
- ISBN
- 1572332034 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002009175
- OCLC
- ocm50002436
- SCSB-4336080
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries