The Sacred Harp - Double Springs, AL
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YoSam.
N 34° 08.284 W 087° 24.146
16S E 462896 N 3777538
Authors of the music and style, in their field of labor.
Waymark Code: WMZQTJ
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 12/24/2018
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County of memorial: Winston County
Location of memorial: Blake St., courthouse lawn, Double Springs
Marker erected by: Their families, their pupils and legions of singers
Marker erected: 1944
This book give the history of the Sacred Harp style of singing, puls it origins and promoters and those who kept it alive.
"At Sacred Harp singings and conventions, participants sing the powerful and harmonious American music from The Sacred Harp, the most enduring of the shape-note tunebooks popular in 19th-century rural America. This tunebook, in its several editions, has given its name to a tradition of unaccompanied community singing and fellowship surviving to the present day. While "harp" is an old word for a hymnal containing music, in a broader sense, the "sacred harp" is the human voice or ensemble of voices." ~ Sacred Harp Singing: History & Tradition
Memorial text:
To the Memory of the Brothers
SEABORN M DENSON and THOMAS J. DENSON
(1854~ 1936) (1863 ~ 1935)
Who Devoted their Lives and Gifts to Composing
And Teaching, over Most of the Southland.
American Religious Folk Music as Embodied in
"THE SACRED HARP"THIS STONE IS PLACED
In the Midst of Their Field of Labor by the
Loving Hands of Their Families, Pupils of Their
Singing, Schools, Legions of Singers and Other
Friends in the Summer of the Year 1944.
THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF "THE SACRED HARP,"
While
"Uncle Seab" and "Uncle Tom" sing on ~
[line of music I cannot copy]
way o~ver in the promised land.
Committee:
L.P.ODEM - RUTH DENSON - Dr. GEORGE P. JACKSON