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Thanks so very much for this, Erin! After reading Rose's comment, I felt really foolish because I

Thank you so much everyone for the feedback! What an impressive compilation here. I've posted the

The documentary gives some interesting insight into the selection and editing process in the 2025

Friends, I sent this out yesterday for Ash Wednesday. I would be glad to hear your comments and

I think it matters why you're buying it. If you don't own a copy, it makes the most sense to

I might be wrong, and please correct me if so, but as far as I can tell all books from before 1964

I have just digitized two cassette tapes of Missouri State Conventions for the years 1988 and 1990.

Thank you, Will. I have enjoyed singing Florida Storm. Someday I will get to a singing using the

🙏 Baltimore Shape Note reacted via Gmail On Sun, Feb 1, 2026, 9:12 PM Will Fitzgerald <will.

Will -- Lovely! RETURN AGAIN is awesome. I am a fan of these texts and the garden theme, and you'

My original message got a response from Richard Ivey, Executive Secretary, Sacred Harp Publishing

I have continued to hope to find the composer of the words and music of TRUSTING, 486a in the 1911 JL

Tell us about Braille shape note resources! I never heard of them. On Mon, Jan 5, 2026 at 7:53 PM

Right, it's in the expanded second edition. -- Will > On Dec 31, 2025, at 11:00 AM, David

Thank you for this information about the “choosing note” in Consecration. I have a first printing

Erin, I find it interesting that at the same time there was a revival of interest in the four-note

Will, I've seen only one copy, I believe at the University of Tennessee. I've never seen a

Ho ho! Thanks David! (and congrats to John Plunkett!). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Errata: Never mind about the couplets; on closer examination, they are definitely rephrased couplets

The West Los Angeles Third Sunday Singing, hosted by Pat Keating and Bruce Hayes, has a tradition of

Great information. And much appreciated. Josh On Fri, Dec 5, 2025, 9:05 PM Karen Willard <kayren.

Hiya! I've been blogging and writing at the singlour.org website and, for however niche and

I wrote an essay on LONG SOUGHT HOME's text for my Vital Sparks column, which itself points to

In an earlier posting about Timothy Dwight's "Columbia," and the tune STAR OF COLUMBIA

I look forward to talking more about ROSE OF SHARON in part 2, but Robert is correct that it is worth

I sent Leland that hymn, after he quoted it a few years ago, with a tune that came to me. Anybody

Asking for somebody else, for whom I do not wish to actually make a trip to Penn Libraries—has

I have now finished transcribing all of Sherman's works in The Musical Medley. I also transcribed

"Candler" is better known to singers as "The Fair Flower of Northumberland". On

Friends, I have some sources in mind for the assertion (secondary literature) that choruses/refrain