Almost Forgotten, 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.

• A Neglected American Classic -- “The Sacred Harp is a deeply communal form of prayer in the churches where it has been, and in some cases still is, practiced.”
• A Very Basic Introduction To Four-Part Singing -- “If you have no idea about what part you are – guess, and then change if you need to!”
• Almost Forgotten Sacred Harp Memory -- “After about 10 years of applying what was learned and observing how the music was written, I tried my hand at composing songs.”
• Baylor Digital Hymnals Collection -- “Currently, seventy-five hymnals have been digitized with complete metadata, including their respective tunes and first lines of text.”
• English Particular Baptist Singing and Congregational Worship Practices to 1700 -- “A large number of early Particulars generally did not practice congregational singing at all; this is apparent from Francis Cornwell’s 1646 Some Reasons Against Stinted Form of Praising God in Psalms...”
• Implications from Isaac Watts’s Trinitarian Controversy -- “A church’s songs do indeed more potently impact the theology of a congregation than that church’s Confessional statements.”
• In Praise of Low-Budget, Non-Professional Music Ministries -- “The ministry of music in our churches is vast and deep and wonderful.”
• Introducing “Collins,” a New Shape-Note Music Typeface for The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition -- “The new music typeface is named “Collins” in honor of the T. K. & P. G. Collins printing firm of Philadelphia who produced the first edition of The Sacred Harp in 1844.”
• Manifesto on Psalms and Hymns -- “Whatever our differences, no one maintains as a point of doctrine that we are prohibited from singing psalms.”
• Nine Choices for a Healthy Music Ministry -- “...some Christians listening to a subset of their number sing is nowhere commanded or exampled in New Testament churches.”
• Page Tracking Table -- “Songs of the Denson tradition Sacred Harp book, on different pages where they have appeared”
• Remembering Squire Parsons -- “Mr. Parsons was also ordained as a minister in 1979 at his home church, Trinity Baptist Church in Asheville, North Carolina.”
• The Page 37 Test: Identifying Basic Editions of The Sacred Harp -- “I’ve devised what I call the “Page 37 Test,” a simple way to distinguish between seven different editions of The Sacred Harp.”
• Why Music Thrives in Our Universities -- “Music isn’t necessarily an antidote to the many cognitive distortions that trouble our campuses, but it has enormous latent power...”