#shenandoah harmony

[makeitagoodoneeh]

this one's for the real valley pocket harmonist heads

[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.

[trambrosia]

Today in my singing group we realized that the wackiest, horniest-for-death song in the Shenandoah Harmony is on page 288, which is 2 x 12 dozen, "too gross." Aaaaaaaaaaa lol, that's got to be on purpose!

Also the altos hold literally one note for the whole song. We decided that they play yhe part of the corpse!

288t Savannah - Shenandoah Harmony

288t Savannah - Shenandoah Harmony

[moderntunesmith]

Pennsylvania (Shumway)

Kicking things off here with a bit of a bang. Those who sing regularly from the Shenandoah Harmony or perhaps the Northern Harmony are probably more familiar with the Jeremiah Ingalls tune (ShH 254) of the same name ('The trumpet sounds, hell trembles, heaven rejoices/Lift up ye saints with cheeeerful voices!'), but I'd argue this one (ShH 282) is the more musically interesting of the two. Shumway doesn't quite get enough love I reckon, despite 192 Schenectady and 217 Ballstown in the Sacred Harp being both popular and bangers.

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[raindoor]

Starting yesterday, we now have weekly shape note singings in Austin (until now we only had monthly). What's even better is that we'll be singing not just from the Sacred Harp, but from other songbooks, among them Shenandoah Harmony. Prior to yesterday I only sang from Shenandoah Harmony when I was in Bremen for the Germany Sacred Harp convention last year. They did it as a pre-convention activity. Here in Texas there are no ShH singings. So I'm quite excited about that, since some of the ShH songs have been my earworms for the last 1-2 years.

[exactly-one-gremlin]

and now my soul another year

of my short life is past!

I cannot long continue here,

and this may be my last.

[buttons-beads-lace]

Shenandoah Harmony 404T, Paradise. I think this one has a bit of a gospel feel, with the little moments of dissonance and the way they resolve. Anyway it is so warm and sweet, and the overall range is small enough that I can hit the high notes comfortably!

[moderntunesmith]

Alison Blake Steel's arrangement of Hick's Farewell is one of the most moving songs in the book to me, largely because of that Dorian shift right on the final chord that completely flips the key of the song on its head.