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| The First New England School | ||
| Separate biographies and midi examples relating to various composers of the first New England School on the Yankee Tunesmiths site. ( http://www.nationwide.net/~amaranth/billings.htm ) | ||
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| Sacred Harp Singing | ||
| A succinct page on how to read and perform music in the Sacred Harp tradition. ( http://www.his.com/~sabol/SHhistory.html ) | ||
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| A radio feature on sacred harp singing from WNYC in New York | ||
| From Studio 360 On the Air (February 3, 2001). ( http://www.wnyc.org/stream/ram.py?file=studio360/studio040701b.ra&start=%229:44.4... ) | ||
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| Negro Folk Expression: Spirituals, Seculars, Ballads and Work Songs | ||
| Discussion of Spirituals as poetry. From Modern American Poetry Site (Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). ( http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/brown/folkexpression.htm ) | ||
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| Sweet Chariot: The Story of the Spirituals | ||
| Multimedia Web site from The Spirituals Project at the University of Denver ( http://ctl.du.edu/spirituals/ ) | ||
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| Negro Spirituals | ||
| Article by Thomas Wentworth Higginson from the Atlantic Monthly, June 1867. ( http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/TWH/Higg.html ) | ||
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| Negrospirituals.com | ||
| Several pages on history, repertory, singers, and composers of spirituals. ( http://www.negrospirituals.com/ ) | ||
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| Evangelicalism, Revivalism, and the Second Great Awakening | ||
| Religious background for sacred music of mid nineteenth century. ( http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/nevanrev.htm ) | ||
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| Amazing Grace: The Story of John Newton | ||
| Historical sketch of the hymn and biography of its composer. ( http://www.texasfasola.org/biographies/johnnewton.html ) | ||
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| From Psalm Book to Hymnal: Selections from the Lowell Mason Collection | ||
| Excerpts from an exhibit at the Yale Divinity School Library January 18-March 30, 2000. ( http://www.library.yale.edu/div/hymnexh.htm ) | ||
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| Lowell Mason: Six Hymns | ||
| Full score and midi audio files to six of Mason's hymns. From the Timeless truths Web site, which contains similar pages for hundreds of other hymn composers. ( http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/_/Mason_Lowell/?sortby=composer ) | ||
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| 19th Century Hymnals On-Line | ||
| From the Michigan State University Digital and Multi-Media Center Web Site "Shaping the Values of Youth: Sunday School Books in 19th-Century America." ( http://digital.lib.msu.edu/ssb/genre.cfm?GenreNo=6/t_self ) | ||
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| Henry Thacker Burleigh | ||
| Sketch on the composer and his music publishing company from pages to accompany the PBS special I hear America Singing. ( http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/composer/burleigh.html ) | ||
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| http://pilgrimproduction.net | ||
| To hear modern singing conventions singing traditional shape note music, click on "Music," then "shape note singing." ( http://pilgtimproduction.net/ ) | ||
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