8'th Ireland 2018 Sacred Harp/Shaped Nopte Hymns

No apostrophe in ordinal numbers - 1st, 2nd, 8th etc.

I thought these were all mountain music? Musta been Scots Irish ancestors.

These songs were written in a system of shaped notes in which shapes represented lengths of note. They were common throughout the United States in the 18th and 18th centuries.

@robertgentel

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Gunga, maybe people remember other threads you have started?

Origin in early 1700 English Country Parishs. Migrated and expanded within NEW ENGLAND in the mid and late 1700's. Moved South, mostly piedmont and low country Baptists Parishes in the 1800's . Apparently today theres only a minor presence of "Sacred Harp" music in the AppalACHIANS.
When I worked West Va for MAdison coal companies, We would go and listen to Sacred Harp concerts near Mingo after the Baptists services were over. It was an interesting kinda weird sound, almost like throat singing and some unusual harmony.

It strikes me as being similar in some ways to Cossack choir music.

Past "казачий хор" into youtube for Cossack choir stuff...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WXRQvTcqek