Considered a type of American roots music, Sacred Harp music consists of four-part a cappella harmonizing of Christian hymns. With roots in early 18th-century English parish singing and the ...

That may sound confusing, but the style is meant to be helpful to people without prior experience reading sheet music. “There’s a ... and a number of hymns that are now part of the Sacred Harp canon ...

The Sacred Harp” hymnal is beloved by those who sing it and carry on the Christian songbook’s more than 180-year-old folk ...