My thanks to each and every one of you for the views, comments and favs! We came home from our visit with family and my energy went kaput! Add a few days of rain on top of that and that seemed to drain any interest in getting back to everyday life so I apologize for taking so long to reply to your comments!
@maggiemae@helenhall This is called "Shape Note" music (also known as Sacred Harp) and if my memory serves me correctly it was specific to the mountain regions of Kentucky, Tennessee and south but it is now popular with singing groups all over the world. Instead of regular notes, a shape is associated with a note on the scale so that people could read the music without having to know the notes and the scale is slightly different than the usual 8 note scale of the music we're used to but it doesn't sound any different when you sing it. The songs were generally religious in nature and were used in community worship services with everyone singing. The phrases are first sung by one section and then it is repeated by the others as if answering the first. While there is usually one "director" you'll notice that many people also keep time with him/her in the same slicing motion. It really has a unique beauty of its own. Here's a group singing this one-notice many of them are using the same book I have here-it's the ultimate collection of these melodies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNskHLiCs9Y
May 30th, 2019
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My thanks to each and every one of you for the views, comments and favs! We came home from our visit with family and my energy went kaput! Add a few days of rain on top of that and that seemed to drain any interest in getting back to everyday life so I apologize for taking so long to reply to your comments!
@salza @30pics4jackiesdiamond LOL I am having such a hard time keeping track of tags lately!
@maggiemae @helenhall This is called "Shape Note" music (also known as Sacred Harp) and if my memory serves me correctly it was specific to the mountain regions of Kentucky, Tennessee and south but it is now popular with singing groups all over the world. Instead of regular notes, a shape is associated with a note on the scale so that people could read the music without having to know the notes and the scale is slightly different than the usual 8 note scale of the music we're used to but it doesn't sound any different when you sing it. The songs were generally religious in nature and were used in community worship services with everyone singing. The phrases are first sung by one section and then it is repeated by the others as if answering the first. While there is usually one "director" you'll notice that many people also keep time with him/her in the same slicing motion. It really has a unique beauty of its own. Here's a group singing this one-notice many of them are using the same book I have here-it's the ultimate collection of these melodies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNskHLiCs9Y