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Sacred Harp Detroit
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Sunday, the 27th of January, 2013
1080 West Auburn Road
Rochester Hills, Michigan 48307
Please Note That This is a New Location.
Free parking is available across Auburn Road at the Rick Young Insurance Agency. Please be careful crossing the road.
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Upcoming Scared Harp Detroit Singings
Sacred Harp Detroit's February singing will be from 2-5pm on Sunday, the 24th of February and the March singing will be from 2-5pm on Sunday, the 24th of March.
Please confirm dates, times, and locations by calling (313) 355-0367 or visiting our facebook page before traveling, especially if you are coming any significant distance.
The 2013 schedule is available here and these dates can be penciled into your planner now to block out the times for the year.
Please spread the word about Sacred Harp Detroit among your friends and relations that may be interested and encourage them to do the same!
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Sacred Harp Online Resources
The Sacred Harp Singers of Cork seem to be the single best quality source for Sacred Harp video and audio. A twitterer (tweeter?) recently said that the quality of their videos was "Making it way easier to convert my friends to singing."
Sacred Harp Videos is a also a very good source of, well, Sacred Harp videos, as is the bigglorries youtube channel.
A guilty pleasure is Constantin Dorsch's sound cloud page. Herr Dorsch is a violinist and plays all four parts of a set of eight Sacred Harp tunes. It is a different experience from hearing them sung but worth a listen. 86 Poland is austere and powerful.
For about half of the songs in The Sacred Harp, 1990 Sacred Harp Bremen has lyrics and computer-generated sound files for the each part and for all parts together. You can listen to these online or download them. They also have links to videos of the songs being sung and a readable image of the score from The Sacred Harp. This is a great resource for learning new songs. While the site is in German it is not too hard to figure out what's what, or you can have translate.google.com translate it for you into English or anything else you might be comfortable with. |
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Sacred Harp Singing Defined
"Sacred Harp singing is a community musical and social event emphasizing participation, not performance, where people sing from a tunebook called The Sacred Harp, printed in music notation using four shaped notes. Since the nineteenth century, Sacred Harp singings have employed a distinctive ‘hollow square’ seating arrangement and rotation of leaders; they begin each song with solmization followed by one or more verses of text." - Dr. Warren Steel.
Dr. Steel also notes the music’s unique sound and the core practices of a communal meal and the forgoing of “contentious discussion of politics and denominational religion.” |
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