Tuesday, December 19, 2006

The Songs of Sacred Harp

Episode 6 is available for download.
(49:00 minutes, 24.7M, MP3)

A few months ago Collections Assistant Heather Marie Wells was privileged to be able to record the Sacred Harp singers who meet in our General Store. In this program you will hear some of this group’s favorite songs performed.

217 Ballstown [0:56]
Shumway, 1809
Watts, 1707

183 Greenwich [2:20]
Read, 1785
Watts, 1719

178 Africa [5:18]
Billings, 1770
Watts, 1709

240 Christian Song [8:31]
Ingalls, 1805
Christian Harmony, 1805

40 Lennox [12:26]
Edson,1782
C. Wesley, 1750

47B Idumea [14:20]
Davisson, 1816
C. Wesley, 1763

59 Holy Manna [17:55]
Moore, 1825
Atkin, 1819

300 Calvary [21:00]
Read, 1785
Watts, 1707

282 I’m Going Home [23:12]
Breedlove, 1850

163B China [25:29]
Swan, 1801
Watts, 1707

270 Confidence [28:27]
Turner, 1850
C. Wesley, 1742

268 David’s Lamentation [30:42]
Billings, 1778

49B Mear [33:29]
A Sett of Tunes, 1720
Watts, 1719

142 Stratfield [35:50]
Goff, 1786
Watts, 1719

105 Jewett [38:08]
Mann, 1869
Newton, 1779

440 North Salem [40:16]
Jenks, 1799
Watts, 1707

235 Long Sought Home [42:36]
Bobo, 1847
Anonymous, 1600s

496 The Rock That Is Higher Than I [45:47]
Arranged by B.F. White, 1869
Dobell's Selection, 1810

All songs are from the 1991 edition of the Sacred Harp.

3 comments:

Will said...

Thanks so much for making this podcast available. You did a great job of introducing the tunes, composers, texts and authors.

Jim G said...

Is this podcast still available? The link is no longer accurate, but I would surely like to download this entry.

Shiloh Museum of Ozark History said...

Jim,

We are very sorry that you were not able to download this episode the first time you tried. We recently made updates to our main website that changed the locations of our MP3 files. We have finished those updates and we have updated the blog as well, so you should now be able to download this episode.

Again we are sorry for any inconvenience and we thank you for your patience and support.