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Historic Bibliographies and Reference Aids
Shape-Note Singing: A List of References
Compiled by: Robin A. McGalliard and Arlene
Rodenbeck
Publication Date: June 17, 1977
Abernethy, Franci E. "Singing All Day & Dinner on the
Grounds." In Abernethy, F.E., ed., Observations & Reflections
on Texas Folklore, Austin: Encino Press, 1972 (Publication of
the Texas Folklore Society, number 37), pp. 131-140.
Baldwin, Jim. "Singing with So-Fa Syllables." Bittersweet,
volume 2, number 1, Fall 1974, pp. 4-16
Boswell, George W. "Verse and Music in the Sacred Harp." Southern
Folklore Quarterly, volume 34, number 1, March 1970, pp.
53-61.
Boyd, Joe Dan. "Judge Jackson: Black Giant of White Spirituals." Journal
of American Folklore, volume 83, number 330, October-December
1970, pp. 446-451.
"Negro Sacred Harp Songsters in Mississippi." Mississippi
Folklore Register, volume 5, number 3, Fall 1971, pp. 60-83.
Buchanan, Annabel M. Folk Hymns of America. New York: J. Fischer & Bro.,
1938.
Chase, Gilbert. America's Music. New York: McGraw Hill, 1955;
revised second edition, 1966. Chapter 10, "The fasola folk."
Cheek, Curtis L. "The Singing School in America: Backgrounds." The
Hymn, volume 13, number 1, January 1962, pp. 5-11.
Cobb, Buell. The Sacred Harp of the South: A Study of Origins,
Practices, and Present Implications." Louisiana Studies,
volume 7, number 2, summer 1968, pp. 107-121.
Cowell, Sidney Robertson. "The 'Shaped-Note Singers' and
Their Music." The Score (London), volume 12, June 1955,
pp. 9-14.
"White Spirituals." Modern Music, volume 21, number
1, November-December 1943, pp. 10-15.
Davis, Josephine R. "Early American Singing Schools." Music
Journal, volume 20, number 3, March 1962, pp. 46, 94-95.
Eskew, Harry "Wm. Walker, 1809-1875: Popular Southern Hymnist." The
Hymn, volume 15, number 1, January 1964, pp. 3-13.
Gilson, F. The History of Shaped or Character Notes, with
Specimens.
Boston: F. H. Gilson, 1889.
Green, Archie. "Hear Those Beautiful Sacred Selections." 1970
Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council, volume 2, number
2, 1971, pp. 28-50.
Griffith, Kay. "Sacred Harp." Loblolly, volume 2,
number 2, Fall 1974, pp. 11-16.
Hall, Paul M. "The Shape-Note Hymnals and Tune Books of
Ruebush-Kieffer Company." The Hymn, volume 22, number 3,
July 1971, pp. 69-76.
Hamm, Charles. "The Chapins and Sacred Music in the South
and West." Journal of Research in Musical Education,
volume 8, number 2, Fall 1960, pp. 91-98.
"Folk Hymns of the Shenandoah Valley." Virginia
Cavalcade,
volume 6, Autumn 1956, pp. 14-19.
Hinton, Sam. "The Shape-Note Hymns: An American Choral Tradition."
The Choral Journal, volume 13, number 5, January 1973, pp. 7-11.
Holditch, Kenneth. "The Sacred Harp: A Southern Folk Hymnody." Louisiana
Folklore Miscellany, volume 3, number 1, April 1970, pp. 5-15
Horn, Dorothy D. Sing to Me of Heaven: A Study of Folk and
Early American Materials in Three Old Harp Books. Gainesville:
University of Florida Press, 1970.
Howard, John Tasker and George Kent Bellows. A Short History
of Music in America. New York: Thomas Y Crowell Co., 1967. Chapter
4, "The Years of the Revolution."
Hulan, Richard. "Folk Hymns: The Cane Ridge Legacy." In
1973 Festival of American Folklife (Washington: Smithsonian Institution,
1973), pp. 18-20.
Jackson, George Pullen. Another Sheaf of White Spirituals. Gainesville:
University of Florida Press, 1952.
Down-East Spirituals and Others. New York: J.J. Augustin,
1943. 2nd Edition, 1953. Reprint edition, New York: Da Capo Press,
1975.
Spiritual Folk Songs of Early America. New York: J.J. Augustin,
1943. Reprint edition, New York: Dover Publications, 1964.
The Story of the Sacred Harp, 1844-1944. Nashville: Vanderbilt
University Press, 1944.
White and Negro Spirituals: Their Lifespan and Kinship. New
York: J.J. Augustin, 1943. Reprint Edition, New York: Do Capo
Press, 1975.
White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands. Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 1933. Reprint Editions, Hatboro, Pennsylvania:
Folklore Associates, 1964; New York: Dover Publications, 1965.
James, Joseph S. A Brief History of the Sacred Harp and
its Author, B.F. White, Sr., and Contributors. Douglasville, Georgia:
New South Book and Job Print, 1904.
Lowens, Irving. Music and Musicians in Early America. New York:
W.W. Norton & Co., 1964. Chapter 6, "The Easy Instructor (1798-1831): A History and Bibliography of the first Shape-Note
Tune Book." Chapter 7, "John Wyeth’s Repository
of Sacred Music Part Second (1813): A Northern Precursor of Southern
Folk Hymnody."
McDowell, L.L. Songs of the old Camp Ground. Ann Arbor: Edwards
Bros., 1937.
Moser, Mabel Y. "Christian Harmony Singing at Etowah." Appalachian
Journal, volume 1, number 4, Spring 1974, pp. 263-270.
Patterson, Daniel W. "Hunting for the American White Spiritual:
A Survey of Scholarship, with Discography." Association
for Recorded Sound Collections Journal, volume 3, number 1, Winter
1970-71, pp. 7-18.
Perrin, Phil D. "Systems of Scale Notation in Nineteenth
Century American Tune Books." Journal of Research in
Musical Education, volume 18, number 3, Fall 1970, pp. 257-264.
Robinson, Mark and Greg Humber. "Singing Schools." Loblolly,
volume 2, number 3, Winter 1974, pp. 24-29.
Scholton, J.W. "Amzi Chapin: Frontier Singing Master and
Folk Hymn Collector." Journal for Research in Musical
Education,
volume 23, number 2, Summer 1975, pp. 109-119.
Seeger, Charles. "Contrapuntal Style in the Three-Voice
Shape-Note Hymns." Musical Quarterly, volume 26, number
4, October 1940, pp. 483-493.
Simms, L. Moody, Jr. "Aldine S. Kieffer and the Musical
Million." Journal of Popular Culture, volume 3, number 2,
Fall 1969, pp. 281-286.
Wolf, John Quincy. "The Sacred Harp in Mississippi." Journal
of American Folklore, volume 81, number 322, October-December
1968, pp. 337-341.
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