The New Harp of Columbia, Restored Edition

by M. L. Swan, W.H. Swan, M.L. Swan

Book Overview

In the small towns and rural areas of early America, church-sponsored singing schools proliferated as a way of both improving congregational singing and drawing communities together. Congregants attending these schools were taught a form of musical notation in which the notes were assigned different shapes to indicate variations in pitch a method that worked well with singers having little understanding of standard musical notation. These schools...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572331283
• ISBN13: 9781572331280
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.4" x 6.3"