Step into St. Monica’s church hall in West Wyoming on a Tuesday evening, close your eyes and listen. Members of the Choral Arts of Luzerne County are sitting in a semi-circle, singing earnestly and ...

Groups of Sacred Harp singers are working together to revise their hymnal The a capella tradition uses shape-note music to sight-read songs from the hymnal's 554 options Families pass the musical ...

Surrounded by other singers arranged in a square, Judy Hauff rocks her feet heel to toe, rhythmically slashes the air with her arm and sings “Fa la sol la sol.” This is “shape note” music, an a ...

Shape-Note or Sacred Harp singing and a look at butterfly species in Kentucky. Shape-note or Sacred Harp singing, a uniquely American tradition, brings communities together to sing four-part a ...

DULUTH — Once a month, typically on a Sunday afternoon, the Friends Meeting House is filled with voices singing together. It's not a performance because everyone present is involved in the singing.

A shape note hymn much like this one gives Thomas Canning's beautiful "Fantasy on a Hymn Tune" a decidedly American accent. A noted French author once said the accent of one's birthplace persists in ...