The Sacred Harp (Various)

Collaborative Work
This work was co-authored by Benjamin Franklin White and Elisha J. King.

First Publication	1844
Genre Categories	Psalms; Religious works; Sacred hymns; Hymns; Anthems; Odes; For 3 voices; For unaccompanied voices; Scores featuring the voice; For 4 voices; For mixed chorus; Scores featuring mixed chorus; For unaccompanied chorus; English language

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Editor	Improved and Enlarged edition Benjamin Franklin White, and others.
Publisher. Info.	Philadelphia: S. C. Collins, 1860.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del/mrg]
Misc. Notes	#104884 and #62355 - Low-quality colour scan. Some pages are in the wrong order - this seems to have occurred in creating the PDF. #979679 - Pages 3-46, 67-78, 81-276, 285-290, 303-308, 317-398 only
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Editor	Joseph Stephen James (1849-1931) (and others in the editing committee)
Publisher. Info.	Atlanta: J.S. James, 1911, 1921 reprint.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del/mrg]
Misc. Notes	This edition of the Sacred Harp was the fore-runner of the 1936 Denson edition (the direct ancestor of the current 1991 edition). It is famous for its "cheese notes" (see notes to song No.82, top, for explanation), some of which contain errors (for example attributions to Chopin rather than Chapin, and Sir John Stevenson rather than Joseph Stephenson of Poole)
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Work Title	The Sacred Harp
Alternative. Title	The Sacred Harp; A Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Ode and Anthems
Composer	Various
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.	None [force assignment]
First Publication.	1844
Librettist	Various
Language	English
Piece Style	Classical
Instrumentation	3 voices; 4 voices
External Links	Wikipedia article Sacred Harp and Shapenote Singing (fasola.org) List of singings (mainly USA) Statistics of song usage 1995-2012 (1991 Denson edition) Sacred Harp singing (Warren Steel) Recordings of (almost) all songs in the Sacred Harp The Makers of The Sacred Harp (paperback), (hardcover)
Extra Information	Publication History