
Holly Meyer
Global Religion News Editor at Associated Press
News editor on @AP's Global Religion team and RNA board member.
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3 days ago |
bhpioneer.com | Holly Meyer
BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — “The Sacred Harp” is a pre-Civil War compilation of sacred songs that uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds, and it is getting an update. Sung in four-part harmony, “The Sacred Harp” is central to its more than 180-year-old American folk a cappella singing tradition that is as much about the community as it is the music. It’s no accident “The Sacred Harp” is still in use today, and a new edition — the first in 34 years — is on its way.
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4 days ago |
chronicle-tribune.com | Holly Meyer
BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred Harp” and its music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds. In four-part harmony, they sing together for hours, carrying on a more than 180-year-old American folk tradition that is as much about the community as it is the music.
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5 days ago |
timeswv.com | Holly Meyer
BREMEN, Ga. — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred Harp” and its music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds. In four-part harmony, they sing together for hours, carrying on a more than 180-year-old American folk tradition that is as much about the community as it is the music. kAmxE’D ?@ 244:56?E “%96 $24C65 w2CA” :D DE:== :?
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5 days ago |
niagara-gazette.com | Holly Meyer
BREMEN, Ga. — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred Harp” and its music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds. In four-part harmony, they sing together for hours, carrying on a more than 180-year-old American folk tradition that is as much about the community as it is the music. kAmxE’D ?@ 244:56?E “%96 $24C65 w2CA” :D DE:== :?
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6 days ago |
baltimoresun.com | Holly Meyer
By HOLLY MEYERBREMEN, Ga. (AP) — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred Harp” and its music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds. In four-part harmony, they sing together for hours, carrying on a more than 180-year-old American folk tradition that is as much about the community as it is the music.
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