The more than 180-year-old compilation of sacred songs uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds.

Sacred Harp singers are not historical reenactors, he said. They use their hymnals week after week. Some treat them like ...

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Andy Ditzler stands in the center of a hollow square, "The Sacred Harp" formation in which singers organize into four voice ...

Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, ...

Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred Harp” and its music notes ...