The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #14533   Message #4158738
Posted By: Joe Offer
25-Nov-22 - 02:16 PM
Thread Name: Shape Note or Sacred Harp
Subject: RE: Shape Note or Sacred Harp
I don't read music very well. If I want to learn something from sheet music or a hymnal, I sometimes transcribe the parts to a MIDI that I can play as a ringtone on my phone. But that's tedious. I really have to want to learn a song to take the effort to learn four parts - or even one of the four parts.

So today I was looking at "Babylon Is Fallen," and I wondered if there might be a resource for the parts of Sacred Harp songs. Sure enough, Sacred Harp Bremen has transcribed all the songs in The Sacred Harp:
The music has a strange, electronic sound. I wonder how it was reproduced. But it's a quick, easy way to see how a Sacred Harp hymn sounds, with all the parts separated for easy learning.