Sacred Harp singers are not historical reenactors, he said. They use their hymnals week after week. Some treat them like ...

Many of the hymnals and sacred songbooks published by worship music companies also establish historical connections, giving Christians a sense of rootedness. Jesse P. Karlsberg, a researcher at ...

Catholic churches threw out their photocopied songsheets and purchased hymnals for their pews, or they paid licensing fees to use the copyrighted music. F.E.L. Publications hasn`t published any ...

BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — “The Sacred Harp” hymnal is beloved by those who sing from it, carrying on the Christian songbook’s more than 180-year-old legacy. They are young and old — and all ...

At its annual fall general assembly, held in Baltimore Nov. 13-16, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops approved new norms for hymns sung at Mass. The norms would ensure that liturgical songs ...

Thiessen, a doctoral candidate at the University of Ottawa who worked with Johnson on a new Mennonite hymnal committee ... For example, the Catholic songwriter Matt Maher, whose song “Your ...

lined-out hymns have no musical notation. People listen, and they sing. The tradition began when churches didn't have songbooks. "I've grown up all my life hearing these songs," Geraldine Ison says.

Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions ... Since the Christian songbook’s pre-Civil War publication, groups of Sacred Harp ...