"Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp" Movie Trailer
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“Sacred Harp,” Music in reference to the Human Voice - also know as:
“Fa-So-La” singing or “Shape-Note singing,” - Influenced by 18th-century English church music - songbooks composed of hymns, anthems, fuguing tunes & 19th-century hymns from British & Irish folk songs.
‘Sacred Harp’ Singing treats every human voice as Holy, resound with harmonious pulse of song. There are no instruments, just human voices carrying on in four-part, a cappella harmony. Loud and hypnotic, it doesn’t sound like a traditional, melodious sing-a-long. Rather,
it’s like a swell of voices chanting with such raw emotion, it sounds as if the room might burst.
In this style of music, the tenor, alto, & bass are independent of the melody. With the four parts so distinct, they’re printed on separate staves. This dispersed harmony creates an unusual blend of voices, giving Sacred Harp it's signature sound.
"Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp" Movie Trailer - YouTube
'Awake, My Soul' is the first feature documentary about the Sacred Harp singers, a 'Lost Tonal Tribe' who, in the deep south, continue to sing some of the ol...
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During a singing, vocalists, arranged around a central square, hold their oblong songbooks so they can easily shift their eyes between the pages and the person leading the song. The leader, in the center of
what is known as the “hollow square,” balances the same book in one hand while the other hand, open-palmed, steadily
beats the rhythm like a metronome. Some singers mimic this motion with their own hands. Rows of wooden pews creak as
the participants rock back and forth, their feet thumping against the floor.
Rather than the traditional seven-note singing scale (do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti), in Sacred Harp the note-heads are printed as four different shapes bound to four syllables: Fa for triangle, Sol for oval, La for rectangle, and Mi for diamond.
Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp - Full Documentary Film:
Disk One: https://youtu.be/sVOn5OXfgZk
Disk Two: https://youtu.be/w-MhPZc4C2o
More: https://web.archive.org/web/20210728035605/http://AwakeMySoul.com/thefi
