Shape Note Singing in Michigan


Regular Local Singings: Lansing Singing (1st & 3rd Tues, 7-9) Kalamazoo Singing (3rd Sunday 3-6) Ann Arbor Singing (2nd Sunday, 2-5) Michigan All Day Singings 2010 Lansing All-Day Singing, next singing June 11, 2011 2010 Michiana All-Day Singing, next singing July 16, 2010 2010 Kalamazoo All-Day Singing, next singing July 17, 2010 Bulletin board (forum) A place for questions, chat, minutes of singings, or to share new compositions. (Requires registration to post or view new compositions.) Sign up for email notifications and reminders of singings. 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 Download a pdf of a shaped note songbook from mid-19th century, in PDF format (15.8 MB). 1860 Sacred Harp Download a pdf of the 1860 Sacred Harp book (90.8 MB.) Movie Trailer for Awake My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp on youtube. Video about the Sacred Harp singing on youtube. Return to site home	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, 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 Map to regular singings in Lansing at Edgewood United Church 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 (shapes are shown above in the page header) 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, since the intervals are the same. A song from the American Church Harp:
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Regular Local Singings:
Lansing Singing (1st & 3rd Tues, 7-9)
Kalamazoo Singing (3rd Sunday 3-6)
Ann Arbor Singing (2nd Sunday, 2-5)

Michigan All Day Singings
2010 Lansing All-Day Singing,
next singing June 11, 2011
2010 Michiana All-Day Singing,
next singing July 16, 2010
2010 Kalamazoo All-Day Singing,
next singing July 17, 2010

Bulletin board (forum)
A place for questions, chat, minutes of singings, or to share new compositions. (Requires registration to post or view new compositions.)

Sign up for email notifications and reminders of singings.

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 Download a pdf of a shaped note songbook from mid-19th century, in PDF format (15.8 MB).
1860 Sacred Harp Download a pdf of the 1860 Sacred Harp book (90.8 MB.)
Movie Trailer for Awake My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp on youtube.
Video about the Sacred Harp singing on youtube.

Return to site home

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, 469 N. Hagadorn, East Lansing, just a few blocks North of Grand River.