Sacred Harp Music

SACRED HARP MUSIC. Sacred harp music is a religious folk music named for Benjamin Franklin White's The Sacred Harp (1844). Its old-time white spirituals are sung a cappella; the "sacred harp" is the human voice singing hymns to God. Sacred harp music, maintained primarily by religious fundamentalists, is sometimes called "fasola" music because of the names of its shape notes...

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