Ice Music, 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.

• Ice Music: Building Instruments Out Of Water -- "Terje Isungset is a Norwegian musician who makes his own instruments — out of ice."
• Lee Family Sacred Harp Workshop, March 2, 1996 -- "Tape 1, South Georgia Folklife Project: Sacred Harp Collection. Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections."
• Lee Family Sacred Harp Workshop -- "Tape 2, South Georgia Folklife Project: Sacred Harp Collection. Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections."
• Musical Frontier -- "Texas Heritage Songwriters’ Association spotlights state’s lyrical poets."
• Shape-Note Singing in Mississippi: a Preliminary History -- "When Mississippi became a state in 1817, white settlement was confined to the Gulf Coast and the lower Mississippi Valley. There is little information on singing in this early period..."
• Singers.com, Primarily A Cappella -- "Primarily A Cappella is an independent music company specializing in vocal music with an emphasis on vocal harmony, that carries a wide selection of material of interest to singers including arrangements, instructional material, CD recordings and DVDs."
• Tuned Up in the Spirit: the Old Regular Baptists and the Joyful Sound -- "There are more than ten thousand members of Old Regular Baptist churches today, and perhaps ten thousand more who haven’t yet joined as members but regularly attend..."
• Want Your Church to Sing? Then Train Them As Children! -- "...one thing is almost universally missing from what are otherwise excellent lists of suggestions and remedies: the role of the church in actually teaching people how to sing, in actually teaching some of the mechanics and skills of singing."
• What I’ve Learned from My Sacred Harp Elders -- "...when I sing the songs that have been sung by so many generations before me, I feel a sense of place, of belonging, on the timeline of Sacred Harp history."
• Why the Decline of Congregational Singing Matters -- "When you turn the lights off and you have theatrical lighting on stage, you’re suggesting to the congregation they are here to watch something rather than participate."
• 6 Lessons from Luther on Congregational Singing -- "In The Whole Church Sings: Congregational Singing in Luther’s Wittenberg, Robin Leaver documents how Luther spearheaded this reformation of song."