Regular Local Singings:
Lansing Singing (1st & 3rd Tues, 7-9)
Kalamazoo Singing (3rd Sunday 3-6)
Ann Arbor Singing (2nd Sunday, 2-5)
Discussion forum
A place for questions, chat, minutes of our local singings, sharing new compositions (requires registration to post--otherwise a bunch of bots would flood the forum).
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Other Links
Wikipedia on shape note singing
Listen to Shape Note Singing recordings
Martha Beverly's photos of singings
fasola.org
(a website with many resources regarding shape note singing)
American Church Harp
a shaped note songbook from mid-19th century, in PDF format (51 MB, zip archive download)
Shape Note singing in the Lansing area happens on every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7 PM until 9 PM at the Edgewood United Church of Christ, 469 N. Hagadorn, East Lansing, just a few blocks North of Grand River.
We meet in the small chapel down the main hall to the right.
For more info, call 517-381-1321 (Bob) or email singing -AtSymbol- fasolamichigan.org
Shape Note singing is a method of sight-reading music, without having to understand the intricacies of musical notation. The relation of pitches to each other is found by using the scale:
fa sol la fa sol la mi
which is similar to the one we are all familiar with from the film, The Sound of Music:
do re me fa sol la ti
except that do re me are replaced with fa sol la and the ti with mi, so that the intervals are the same and there are fewer to recall.
