Shape Note - Missouri Harmony, Charles Davis Tillman, Timothy Swan, William Billings, James Landrum White, Benjamin Franklin White (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Missouri Harmony, Charles Davis Tillman, Timothy Swan, William Billings, James Landrum White, Benjamin Franklin White, Wilson Marion Cooper, Southern Harmony, Supply Belcher, Daniel Read, William Walker, Aldine Silliman Kieffer, Joseph Funk, Stephen Jenks, Amzi Chapin, Justin Morgan, Joseph Summerlin James, Harmonia Sacra, List of shape-note tunebooks, George Pullen Jackson, Jeremiah Ingalls, David Patillo White, Virgil Oliver Stamps, Christian Harmony, East Texas Musical Convention, Union Harmony, William Hauser, Nehemiah Shumway, Daniel Belknap, Ananias Davisson, Jacob Kimball, Jr., Seaborn McDaniel Denson, New Sacred Harp, Southwest Texas Sacred Harp Singing Convention, Jesse B. Aikin, Kentucky Harmony, Jacob French, Andrew Law, Ebenezer Child, Timothy Olmstead, New Harp of Columbia, Hesperian Harp. Excerpt: The Missouri Harmony, first published in 1820, was the most popular of all frontier shape-note tune books during its reign. The 185 songs compiled in the collection were favorites used in Protestant churches and singing schools, and many were deeply rooted in American culture by the time of its first publication. The story of the book is the story of a burgeoning nation, with its origins in a St. Louis school (where it was introduced by singing master Allen Carden) and its spread along the Mississippi River and its tributaries. It's said that even Abraham Lincoln and his sweetheart, Ann Rutledge, sang from The Missouri Harmony at her father's tavern in Illinois. For a while in the early 19th century, St. Louis and the Mississippi Valley frontier set the standard for popular sacred music in America. It began in 1820 with the publication of The Missouri Harmony, and it lasted for some thirty years, until the folk harmonies of its old spirituals were replaced in popular taste by the parlor songs and stolid Sunda...