![]() ![]() ![]() Not only did the convention provide a gathering for vocal musicians, but it also created an authoritative body to approve of teachers for singing schools. Mann, Absalom Ogletree and Marion Patrick as the committee to revise the Sacred Harp in 1869–1870. The Southern Musical Convention selected White, Edmund Dumas, R. The second revision committee of the Sacred Harp in 1858-1859 consisted of B. Under White's leadership, the Southern Musical Convention sponsored three revisions of the Sacred Harp (1850, 1859, 1869). It gradually had less influence in the history of Sacred Harp. The shape notes were an eight-note system used as an easy way to teach people melodies and harmonies for singing sacred music.Īfter 1867, the Convention adopted a policy of using other song books. They would collect at camp meetings and spend considerable time singing these hymns. Shape-note singing had been taught by preachers and missionaries during the second Great Awakening, as a way of evangelizing to people on the frontier and in rural areas. It was a collection of songs notated by shape notes and featuring four-part harmonies. It was formed at Huntersville in Upson County, Georgia.įrom its founding until 1867, White's The Sacred Harp was the "textbook" of the convention. ![]() ![]() The Southern Musical Convention was the first Sacred Harp musical convention, organized by B. ![]()
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