Easter Anthem

Sung at Headrick Chapel, Wear's Valley, Sevier County, Tennessee, on Sunday, September 27, 2008. Page 195 of "New Harp of Columbia." At leader's choice, we took more repeats than are marked.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• shapenote
• shape
• note
• sacred
• harp
• sevenshape
• NewHarp
• Headrick

[StibiumAlkabar]

Well I like the way it's done here: this seems like the way it's been sung for over 200 years, the way its composer would have expected to hear it himself!

[dono509]

Of course, shape note singing was invented so untrained people could learn to sing together. We do not concern ourselves with performance. We sing for the joy of it. If people enjoy looking and listening, that's fine. If not, that's also fine. All that is beside the point anyway.

[sexyblknaustin]

Ok we Sung this in Choir in my High School and the way we did this song was not like this this was even one of of the songs we did in a Contest at the Kennedy Center in DC we didnt sing it like this. I like the way we did it

[dono509]

All righty, then

[LyricalBard]

Your leader was right; those repeats are historically correct.

[BBiebigheiser]

I LOVE this song! My favorite part is the Hallelujahs! :)

[PLBrayfield]

This is such a great song! Thanks for posting!

[Minstrelcraft]

Thanks for posting. My favorite Sacred Harp song. (No "New Harp" singings in my part of Texas)