Since somebody mentioned "Northern Harmony" I will jump back in. A lot of people in CT have heard of the Morgan horse-- (which, when I was married, I used to help raise, train and show; my job was mostly to write checks. But I digress) Justin Morgan's OTHER profession was traveling singing-master; he would go around from town to town, teach a three-day course in how to read music by looking at the shapes and by the end of the weekend all the people in that church were singing. Like most other early singing-masters, he wrote several tunes of hiw own which appear in the Sacred Harp book most everybody uses - Montgomery, which I believe is #190, is one of his. Barbara-- if, as WW as suggested, you try for some newspaper publicity for your upcoming Sing, this might be a good angle which a newspaper reporter might go for. I'm so glad the Amidons are going to do this-- they're GOOD. (In fact, you might hear them say "this is the way it was done 200 years ago; first teach by rote, then learn to associate shapes with notes of the scale, then sing the words") As you get more familiar with the music you will notice the difference between the Southern open 4ths and 5ths and their archaic sound (as Mark Cohen has pointed out) -- from the Northern music of Morgan, Billings Ingalls, etc., which sounds more like what we're used to. But it"s ALL fun.