- 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...”
“Ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein.” Caveat lector
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Saturday, August 09, 2025
Almost Forgotten, and other music links
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