I love Sacred “old”Harp singing. One of the most spine tingling experiences is to stand in the center of the square and have the sound of those four parts directed right at you when you’re the leader. I hope that there is Sacred Harp singing in heaven. There has to be because that’s where it must’ve begun eons ago.

There is absolutely nothing in this world that's is as full filling as Sacred Harp Singing. A beautiful form of worship

@tracygriffin4439

7 ай бұрын

I find it kind of austere and ugly. It is interesting historically as a form of music, but I am rather amazed anyone likes it. I find it dreary, depressing, and harsh.

I absolutely LOVE this!🥰

This is just too cool!! I love this kind of singing. The first time I heard this kind of singing was in the movie "Cold Mountain", which took place in the Appalachian area of North Carolina during the time just before, and during the Civil War. After hearing this music in that movie, I began to search for it here on KZread and have enjoyed listening to it here, ever since. I would like to also say that I recently found my biological family, as I was adopted as an infant. My birth family is from the Wiregrass region of south Georgia (Waycross, GA, Brantley/Ware counties), on the outskirts of the great Okeefenokee Swamp and many of them were members of the Primitive Baptist faith. A good number of my ancestors were buried in the graveyards around these Primitive Baptist churches, too, and it's interesting to note that the pictures I've seen of some of the interiors of existing south Georgia Primitive Baptist Churches' look exactly like the one in the above video. A LOT of them, too, are lacking a coat of much needed paint!! Thank you for posting this. I love the song and the singing!!🥰

@EmmersomBigguns

9 ай бұрын

I'm also from Brantley County. Very interesting to see someone so close in a KZread comment section.

Greetings from Ireland. Christ bless these dear folk. Amen.

I pray this type of singing never dies out!

@laurievandenbeldt6353

6 жыл бұрын

bmiltonb From all the videos I am seeing in Ireland, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Goshen Indiana,etc, it appears to be grwing!

@bumblebee0369

3 жыл бұрын

@@laurievandenbeldt6353 ....im from about 1.5 -2 hours Northeast of Kalamazoo Mi. I sure hope it does continue to grow. I think that's awesome! I never knew this existed and I really like it a lot!

@laurievandenbeldt6353

3 жыл бұрын

@@bumblebee0369 Hi! It's stirring to me even as a Progressive Christian! Nice to meet you! Have you ever been to Wheatland Music Festival?

My grandmother on my mother's side, was Primitive Baptist. I remember going to these "old book" singings when I was little

Bound for The Promised Land! By grace and grace alone. Thank you dear Lord!

Beautiful!!!!!

Thank you for having these videos on the shape note singing. My 3rd great-grandfather, Elder Martin White was a Primitive Baptist minister. I sent a photo of his hymnal to Robert Webb, the Primitive Baptist archivist in Carthage, IL and he said it was a shape note hymnal. It's wonderful to be able to hear the music that my 3rd great grandparents sang in their worship services in the places they lived -- Kentucky, Illinois, Kansas, and Missouri.

@lamartech

5 жыл бұрын

www.abebooks.com/Sacred-Harp-White-King-Publishing/30220214818/bd?cm_mmc=gmc-_-used-_-PLA-_-v01&gclid=Cj0KCQiAk-7jBRD9ARIsAEy8mh7X4dW6RmOgFP2CElq6ixtQe0HLesnxoCL6fK3UA2zjvIjNlHe4vqkaAh4kEALw_wcB

@MasterMichelleFL

5 жыл бұрын

My ancestor, Elijah Oliver was a member and deacon here for 37 years.❤

God bless the faithful of Cades Cove Primitive Baptist Church. You have blessed us in so many ways that you may never know, but your understanding through the sufferings of Jesus has afforded many of us to incorporate your songs of worship into our Sabbath day worship, when attending a local church is not a viable option. I thank God for your efforts, and say to you who have kept the faith, and still fight the good fight....Fight on... your work is not in vain. Your songs have uplifted my spirit, and overwhelmed me with the Holy Spirit of God.

I love it.Learned to sing it back in the !950,

So moving. Beautiful to see how after a while the singers are gently swaying together. Real harmony, must be a wonderful feeling.

This is in the Sacred Harp too.

Oh, praise be to Him. 🥺 You've transported me home! My heart is so very happy. It's been so long. You all are beautiful together. Thank you so much.

In the Sacred Harp, this is The Promised Land, no. 128, one of the greats

If you go to Cades Cove in Octobe,r the second or third Sunday of the month, you will hear people singing hymns. It's a religious experience.

Always nice to not forget the old ways.

@lamartech

5 жыл бұрын

I grew up on this music!

epic and moving.

2cove primitive Baptist Church Oliver's family hi ,😮great patriotism book cades cove birth of small community book.

Great to hear this! THANKS FOR POSTING!

I LOVE IT! Amen! :)

Very nice to hear sounds from within.

Beautiful

Thank you.

These are the same songs as in the Sacred Harp. The first one is "The Promised Land 128", a folk hymn arraigned by M. Durham in 1835, but the verses are different (as was usual back then; the words were considered interchangeable, and were only printed for convenience in the tune books; this song can be sung with any common-meter verse, such as "Amazing Grace"...and vice versa). In the Sacred Harp it's printed with Samuel Stennett's classic lyrics "on Jordan's stormy banks* I stand an cast a wishful eye, to Canaan's fair and happy land where my possessions lie; I am bound for the promised land (x3) oh who will come and go with me, I am bound for the promised land" "Oh the transporting rapturous scene that rises to my sight, sweet fields arrayed in living green, and rivers of delight (chorus)" "Filled with delight my raptured soul would here no longer stay, Though Jordan's waves around me roll, I'd fearless launch away (chorus)" The Sacred Harp tradition sings the songs faster and more vigorously, but it's otherwise very similar. And of course its written in 4-shapes (fa-so-la-fa-so-la-mi), rather than 7 (do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti, IIRC) It's interesting that Sacred Harp and Old Harp seem too have survived more or less side-by-side, yet it's the Sacred Harp that "got famous" through Alan Lomax; perhaps it was even more widespread than the Old Harp, but I know both were extant in the mid-20th century because my father has an old record of people singing Old Harp music in the 1960s, and it was an old tradition even then. *I always chuckle at this line, and verses about "the tempestuous Jordan", or "mighty Jordan", because it would seem that the writers never actually _saw_ the Jordan river, which is really a quite small and calm stream, really a creek these days, with all the irrigation and such. Of course they are speaking figuratively, but it's still amusing.

@ChloeL.16

14 күн бұрын

"On Jordan's stormy banks" will always have a special place in my heart bc it was sung at my grandfather's funeral.🥲

This is also known as Sacred Harp singing, and hymn books are still available (Southern Harmony being one that is well known). It is particularly unusual because, unlike most church music where the melody is sung by the sopranos, Sacred Harp singing is distinctive because the tenor part carries the melody.

@mh605

3 жыл бұрын

It's actually a seven-shape book called New Harp of Columbia.

I've always wanted to do this

Most intersting>

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Words1. Come. let us use the grace divine and all with one accord In a perpetual covenant join ourselves to Christ the Lord;[Chorus]I am bound for the promised land I am bound for the promised landOh, who will come and go with meI am bound for the promised land.2. Give up ourselves, through Jesus' power His name to glorify; and promise, in this sacred hour, for God to live and die.[Chorus]I am bound for the promised landI am bound for the promised landOh, who will come and go with meI am bound for the promised land.

@thomasmozingo8149

7 жыл бұрын

L.A. Sanders what's the actual song title?

@kelharper7971

6 жыл бұрын

Of course it is good to note that the first time it is sung "with the shapes", do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do, and then they start the words. This may seem obvious to some people, but I've known people to be perplexed, unable to figure out what they are singing, and end up deciding it must be some other language. LOL.

A joyful multitude of harmonious voices uplifted to the heaven above! Shant stop tappin my toes. Would any learned shape note singer know what hymn title is this ?

@calumwoods4917

9 жыл бұрын

'The Promised Land', on page 47 in the New Harp of Columbia. :)

@janehafker

9 жыл бұрын

Kryochrysalis get a hymn book from any thrift store and sing along with them in your regular voice, you'll LOVE IT. Go to any church in America. NO HYMN BOOKS ANYWHERE. Drums, Peavey Rock Concert amplifiers, Bass rock guitars, all blasted so loud no human voice can be heard. Satan has been very busy and very successful.

@Kryochrysalis

9 жыл бұрын

Calum Woods Appreciate Calum, seekers gathered in communion & choir make 'The Promised Land' appear yet for an instant.

@Kryochrysalis

9 жыл бұрын

***** Agreed jane & yes almost described my voice, irregular, grin. The fingered hymnals purple of my youth I held & now hold blue dear still. Warms my yearning heart the Lords greatest instrument, the voice, blessed us to sing Him praise. Will keep eyes peeled at thrifts, merci.

When are the services at this church?

@mh605

3 жыл бұрын

No services anymore. It's in a national park. The buildings have been preserved but the people no longer go to church there.

is this in sacred harp book? if so, what number?

@jdw3843

5 жыл бұрын

Well, they were singing out of a 7-shape book (so it's not the Sacred Harp which lacks do and re notes); however the Sacred harp has a variation of the tune on 128 called "The Promised Land".

This is 7-shape, yes?

@edisonstalkingmachin

8 жыл бұрын

+justforever96 Indeed, this is a 7-shape book titled New Harp of Columbia.

Anyone down for personal bible studies? 😇🙏✨🤗📖🙌🏼

I wish there is a PB in San Francisco! BTW: Can you post the lyrics here? I somehow believe there is like two different hymns mixed together. I donno. Thanks!

@babababad

10 жыл бұрын

No Primitive Baptists, but there are Sacred Harp singings, and that comes from the same tradition: bayareafasola.wordpress.com/

@janeyue9535

10 жыл бұрын

Ibadibam My big concern is.. I know that acappella is biblical, but I am honestly not sure when wikipedia says, Sacred Harp is "originated as Protestant Christian music." I am full of confusions now! Thanks!

@babababad

10 жыл бұрын

I don't quite see what you're getting at, but I will try to give more information: the Sacred Harp, like the Old Harp which the singers in this video are using, is an a cappella tunebook of sacred music (the "Harp" is just part of the title of the book, not an instrument being played). Both books are 19th-century collections of hymns, anthems, psalms, etc. that have been used by American Christians of many denominations for the last few centuries, including Primitive Baptists.

@verdew8181

10 жыл бұрын

On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand, And cast a wishful eye To Canaan’s fair and happy land, Where my possessions lie. Refrain: I am bound for the promised land, I am bound for the promised land; Oh, who will come and go with me? I am bound for the promised land. Oh, the transporting, rapturous scene That rises to my sight! Sweet fields arrayed in living green, And rivers of delight! O’er all those wide, extended plains Shines one eternal day; There God the Son forever reigns, And scatters night away. No chilling winds or poisonous breath Can reach that healthful shore; Sickness and sorrow, pain and death, Are felt and feared no more. When I shall reach that happy place, I’ll be forever blest, For I shall see my Father’s face, And in His bosom rest. Filled with delight my raptured soul Would here no longer stay; Though Jordan’s waves around me roll, Fearless, I’d launch away.

@EliezerPennywhistler

10 жыл бұрын

Dorothyellen w those aren't the verses these folks are singing. Listen again. btw - your last verse ain't part of the song.

Mighty warriors for Christ

What book are they singing from?

@lamartech

5 жыл бұрын

www.abebooks.com/Sacred-Harp-White-King-Publishing/30220214818/bd?cm_mmc=gmc-_-used-_-PLA-_-v01&gclid=Cj0KCQiAk-7jBRD9ARIsAEy8mh7X4dW6RmOgFP2CElq6ixtQe0HLesnxoCL6fK3UA2zjvIjNlHe4vqkaAh4kEALw_wcB Scared Harp Singing Book

@mh605

3 жыл бұрын

@@lamartech Thanks, but It's not the Sacred Harp. That's a four-shape book. This is New Harp of Columbia, a seven-shape book.

This is not shaped note, is it?

@danielwatts7375

8 жыл бұрын

In the PB churches I've attended, we use shaped notes.

@jasonmatthew7196

7 жыл бұрын

yes, it's sacred harp and they use 4 notes: Fa, Sol, La, and Mi

@mrrandomperson3106

7 жыл бұрын

This is seven shape, not four. They're singing from the New Columbian Harp though the tune is in the Sacred Harp as well, p128.

Beautiful