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Friday, January 23, 2015

SH Revival, and other music links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

* Acoustic levitation: how sound can get physical -- "Scientists prove it is possible to levitate and move objects in mid air using only sound."
* Book Review: The Story of the Trapp Family Singers -- "This is the true story that 'inspired' my favorite musical, The Sound of Music...There are definitely some big differences between the book and the movie..."
* Fasola Modality -- "Linked here are two sets of indices, including mode, range and meter, of The 1991 edition Sacred Harp and seven 19th Century Shape-Note Hymnals."
* I Don’t Have a Hammer, But I Have a Mennonite Hymnal -- "...I heard the congregation sing 'You are Salt for the Earth' (HWB 226). Immediately upon hearing the verse, I thought, “Wow, this congregation can sing!” But when the congregation got to the refrain and sang its harmony, something in the world shifted. Something in me shifted, and the world seemed illumined."
* Online Minutes of Singings using The Sacred Harp, Revised Cooper Edition -- "...download the Minutes Template and after filling it in, return it to us as an attachment to your email."
* Piano stores closing as fewer children taking up instrument -- "When Jim Foster opened his piano store 30 years ago, he had 10 competitors selling just pianos."
* Sacred Harp Revival -- "Sacred Harp is a rough-hewn, full-throated devotional music. It’s horizontal in its practice, which is deeply democratic and participatory, with an emphasis on decibels instead of polish, and vertical in its sound, which is characterized by dense pentatonic harmonies."
* William J. Reynolds, renowned professor and hymnologist -- This was written on the occasion of his passing, but I thought some might be interested in the information it contains on Dr. Reynolds.

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