#shape note

[makeitagoodoneeh]

this one's for the real valley pocket harmonist heads

[animate-mush]

You know, I am not much of an artist.

But dang if I can't draw backwards on rubber

Now I gotta carve this somehow

Who can guess what tune this is?

[ukfrislandembassy]

A while back I decorated both my Sacred Harp and my Shenandoah Harmony, because why not. It's nice to sing from a book that you've marked as your own.

[good--merits-accumulated]

Everyone IMMEDIATELY look at the incredible incredible incredible job Vine @vinesandvellichor did illustrating my copy of the green book?!?!?!??!?!?! Literally no words. I've been screaming since yesterday. L O O K.

[raindoor]

Today at the weekly, beginner-friendly Sacred Harp singing, where we often sing each part separately before combining them, I brought up a very rarely performed song, 165 Family Bible. There aren't even any Youtube recordings of it! I did it just for laughs, and because the words are so unusually quaint even for a shapenote song, and because I really Judy Hauff's recording of it in her Bandcamp album "Sacred Harp Minor Tunes with the Sixth Raised (Dorian)".

Singing all the parts herself, Judy Hauff achieves great harmonies that apparently cannot be achieved by our group. There is one really intriguing chord in it, the first note in the measure 4 on the second line; it falls on the word "stand". It feels interestingly "unresolved". But when our group sings it, it's just not there. The notes are, presumably, all the same, but the chord sounds quite ordinary and banal. So I don't know by what magic Judy Hauff achieves it. (No, it's not matter of a raised sixth. There is no sixth in that chord.)

[trambrosia]

An incredible bit of business on the Facebook group today

[thesilencedsovereign]

I miss @thedailyfasola so here I'm doing one myself from the song that was on repeat for the past 3 hours as I sit here at my job. Am I doing it right? Who cares.

[tooth-and-clawhammer]

My striking nail is growing back, but in the meantime been messing around with some 223 Balm in Gilead.