The Shapenote Album
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Composer: Justin MorganComposer: Daniel Read
Composer: Anonymous
Composer: Timothy Swan
Composer: Alfred Marcus Cagle
Orchestra: Oren Adolphes Parris
Conductor: American Traditional
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-09-04
Music Label: Loft Recordings
Soundtracks:
- Psalm 63 'Early my God, without delay' (Montgomery)
- Windham ('Broad is the road that leads to death')
- Sweet Prospect, folk song
- China, psalm tune
- Soar away, fuging tune
- The better land, fuging tune
- Weepin' Mary, spiritual
- White, shape-note revival song
- Mortality, psalm tune
- Eternal day, fuging tune
- Heavenly union (music collected into Joseph Hillman's 'Revivalist, 1868'), religious ballad
- Expression (music in 'The Sacred Harp', 1844), folk hymn
- Evening shade, fuging tune
- Kedron, folk hymn
- Love the Lord, revival song
- Condescension, religious ballad
- All is Well, folk hymn
- Africa, for chorus
- Traveling on
- Happy Land, folk hymn
- New Jerusalem (from 'The Village Harmony'), fuging tune
- Primrose (aka '24th' or 'Chelmsford'), psalm tune
- Hallelujah, revival song
- Peace and joy, fuging tune
- Schenectady ('From all that dwell below the skies')
Music reviews of The Shapenote Album
Music Review: Not quite authentic.....
Rating: 3 Stars
Recently, I got interested in the Sacred Harp music, being a devoted fan of "old" country, western, blues and bluegrass, and bought this CD.
I must say I was disappointed because, well, this music is too polished, to perfect, too professional. It is as if a bunch of music majors and professional muscians got together and perfected shape note tunes for the modern ear.
I really enjoyed the Sacred Harp Singers at Liberty Church found on the Cold Mountain soundtrack. Granted, it is hard to find this "authentic" sound, and harder still for modern urban raised muscians to duplicate that sound. But if you really are looking for traditional, down-home, Sacred Harp music, this isn't the album for you. Yes, it's a brilliant piece of artistic recreation of an old style of singing, but it just doesn't sound true to it's roots, in my opinion.
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