Shape Note Bibliography - by John Bealle

  • Introduction - overview of the bibliography, its structure, its purpose, and its compiler
  • bibliographic sources - a section of the bibliography that contains other bibliographic sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and indexes
  • concepts - broad concepts in which the shape note idiom is often understood, such as American culture, American religion, and folk music
  • culture groups - groups of people with a common culture who are tied in some way to the shape note idiom
  • geographic regions - nations, states, and other areas with distinct cultural makeup
  • influences - individuals and institutions that have influenced or been influence by the shape note and hymn singing idiom
  • musical forms - musical styles, forms, concepts, or institutions associated with the idiom
  • religious forms - religious institutions, individuals, or forms associated with the idiom
  • tunebook compilers - compilers of shape note tunebooks, but also hymn writers, psalmodists, and composers
  • tunebooks - shape note tunebooks, related tunebooks in any notation, hymn and psalm books

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    concepts

    American music

    American religion

    American sacred music

    antimodernism

    architecture

    associations

    Civil War

    dissent

    Enlightenment

    frontier theory

    metaphysical poetry

    nationalism

    nostalgia

    pedagogy

    religious pluralism

    Romanticism

    Transcendentalism

    culture groups

    African American music

    German Americans

    Huguenots

    Native Americans

    Pilgrims

    women

    influences

    Bach, J. S.

    Beecher, Lyman

    Benton, Thomas Hart

    Bible

    Blake, William

    Bower, Jacob

    Bruce, Neely

    Bunyan, John

    Calvin, John

    Cartwright, Peter

    Cotton, John

    dance

    Dickinson, Emily

    Donne, John

    Dwight, John Sullivan

    Foster, Stephen

    Handel, Georg Friedrich

    Handel and Haydn Society of Boston

    Hartley,Walter

    Haydn, Franz Joseph

    Henry, G. W.

    humor

    hymn scholars

    Ives, Charles

    Jackson, George Pullen

    Kemp, Father Robert

    Longfellow, Samuel

    Lorenz, Edmund S.

    Luther, Martin

    Mason, Luther Whiting

    Mather, Cotton

    Metcalf, Frank J.

    Moody, Dwight L.

    Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich

    Pope, Alexander

    Ritchie, Jean

    Sarbiewski, Casimire

    Southern Agrarian movement

    Washington, George

    Wright, Andrew

    musical forms

    anthems

    ballads

    bluegrass music

    carols

    chanting

    choirs

    Christmas music

    community singing

    congregational singing

    counterpoint

    Fisk Jubilee Singers

    folk hymns

    folk music

    fuging tunes

    gospel music

    Gymanfa Ganu

    hexachord

    hymns

    lining out

    medieval singing

    modes

    music publishing

    music reform movement

    musica ficta

    musical notation

    Musical Million

    numerical notation

    Old Folks Concerts

    Old Way of singing

    organs

    printing and publishing

    protest songs

    psalmody

    public school music

    Regular Singing

    religious songs

    Sacred Harp singers

    Sacred Harp singing

    set piece

    shape note notation

    singing conventions

    singing schools

    singings

    solmization

    Sonneck Society

    spirituals [African American]

    spirituals [camp meetings]

    tunebooks

    Vaughan Publishing Co.

    West Gallery music

    white spirituals

    Wiregrass Sacred Harp

    Word of Mouth Chorus

    religious groups

    African Methodist Episcopal Church

    American Bible Society

    Amish Church

    Anabaptist movement

    Anglican Church

    Baptist Church

    Calvinism

    camp meetings

    Catholic Church

    Church of Christ

    churches

    circuit riders

    Congregational Church

    Cumberland Presbyterian Church

    Disciples of Christ Church

    Episcopal Church

    evangelical movement

    frontier preachers

    funerals

    German Baptist Church

    German Reformed Churches

    Great Awakening [First]

    Great Awakening [Second]

    Harmony Society

    itinerant preachers

    Judaism

    Lutheran Church

    Mennonite Church

    Methodist Church

    Methodist Episcopal Church

    Moravians

    Old Baptists

    Old Brethren Church

    Old Regular Baptist Church

    Presbyterian Church

    Primitive Baptist Church

    Primitive Methodist Church

    Protestant Church

    Protestant Reformation

    Puritans

    Reformed Presbyterian Church

    Reformed Protestant Dutch Church

    revivals

    Schwenkfelder Church

    Seventh-Day Baptist Church

    Shakers

    Swiss Brethren

    Unitarian Church

    United Brethren in Christ Church

    Universalist Church

    worship

    tunebook compilers

    Aikin, Jesse B.

    Auld, Alexander

    Beissel, Johann Conrad

    Belcher, Supply

    Billings, William

    Bradbury, William Batchelder

    Caldwell, William

    Campbell, Alexander

    Carden, Allen D.

    Chapin, Amzi

    Chapin, Lucius

    Commuck, Thomas

    Cooke, Henry

    Cowper, William

    Croft, William

    Davies, Samuel

    Davisson, Ananias

    Doddridge, Philip

    Doll, Conrad

    Dwight, Timothy

    Edson Family

    Flagg, Joseph

    French, Jacob

    Funk, Joseph

    Gram, Hans

    Granade, John Adam

    Harrison, Thomas

    Hastings, Thomas

    Hauser, William

    Hayden, Amos Sutton

    Heber, Reginald

    Herbert, George

    Holden, Oliver

    Holyoke, Samuel

    Hopkinson, Francis

    Humbert, Stephen

    Huntingdon, Lady

    Ingalls, Jeremiah

    Jackson, John B.

    Jackson, Judge

    Jenks, Stephen

    Jones, Lazarus J.

    Kieffer, Aldine S.

    Kimball, Jacob

    Law, Andrew

    Leavitt, Joshua

    Leland, John

    Lloyd, Benjamin

    Lyon, James

    Mann, Elias

    Mason, Lowell

    McCurry, John G.

    Mercer, Jesse

    Metcalfe, Samuel

    Meyer, Henry E.

    Moore, William

    Morgan, Justin

    Newton, Isaac

    Newton, John

    Parker, John R.

    Playford, John

    Pound, E. T.

    Read, Daniel

    Rhinehart, W. R.

    Richardson, H. H.

    Rippon, John

    Root, George F.

    Rowe, Elizabeth Singer

    Ruebush, Ephraim

    Sankey, Ira D.

    Selby, William

    Selina, Countess of Huntingdon

    Shaw, Oliver

    Showalter, Anthony Johnson

    Steel, Anne

    Sternhold and Hopkins

    Stone, Joseph

    Swan, Timothy

    Tufts, John

    Walker, William

    Walter, Thomas

    Warren, J. S.

    Watts, Isaac

    Wesley, Charles

    Wesley, John

    Wetmore, Truman S.

    White, Benjamin Franklin

    Woodbridge, William Channing

    Woodbury, Issac B.

    Wyeth, John

    tunebooks

    Ainsworth Psalter

    Allgemein nutliche Choral-Music [Funk]

    American Church Harp [Rhinehart]

    American Harmony [Bayley]

    American Harmony [Johnson]

    Bay Psalm Book

    Christian Harmony [Ingalls]

    Christian Harmony [Walker]

    Christian Lyre [Leavitt]

    Christian Minstrel [Aikin]

    Colored Sacred Harp [Jackson]

    Columbian Harmony [Moore]

    Continental Harmony [Billings]

    Cumberland Harmony [Campbell]

    David's Harp

    Easy Instructor [Little and Smith]

    Edkhard's Choirmaster's Book

    Geistreiches Gesang-Buch

    Harmonia Sacra [Funk]

    Hesperian Harp [Hauser]

    Hymns and Spiritual Songs [Watts]

    Introduction to the Art of Singing Psalm Tunes [Tufts]

    Kentucky Harmonist [Metcalfe]

    Kentucky Harmony [Davisson]

    Knoxville Harmony [Jackson]

    Mercer's Cluster [Mercer]

    Missouri Harmony [Carden]

    National Psalmist [Mason and Webb]

    New Harp of Columbia [Swan]

    Ohio Harmonist [Auld]

    Old Version [Sternhold and Hopkins, 1551]

    Olive Leaf [Hauser]

    Olney Hymns [Cowper]

    Psalmist [Stow and Smith]

    Ravenscroft's Psalter

    Repository of Sacred Music [Wyeth]

    Republican Harmony [Nathaniel Billings]

    Republican Harmony [Wetmore]

    Sacred Harp [White and King]

    Selection of Hymns [Rippon]

    Singer's Companion [1854]

    Social Harp [McCurry]

    Southern Harmony [Walker]

    Southern Minstrel [Jones]

    St. Louis Harmony [Seat]

    Union Harmony [Caldwell]

    Union Harmony [Humbert]

    United States Harmony [Carden]

    United States Sacred Harmony [Pilsbury]

    Urania [Lyon]

    Village Harmony

    Warren's Minstrel [Warren]

    Western Harmony [Carden]

    Worcester Collection of Sacred Harmony

    Wyeth's Repository

    geographic regions

    Alabama

    Appalachian region

    Arkansas

    California

    Canada

    Connecticut

    District of Columbia

    England

    Finland

    Florida

    France

    Georgia

    Germany

    Holland

    Illinois

    Indiana

    Iowa

    Kentucky

    Kentucky

    Maine

    Maryland

    Massachusetts

    Mexico

    Michigan

    Midwest

    Mississippi

    Missouri

    Missouri

    New England

    New Hampshire

    New Mexico

    New York

    North Carolina

    Ohio

    Ohio

    Oklahoma

    Pennsylvania

    Philippines

    Rhode Island

    Scotland

    South Carolina

    Southern states

    Switzerland

    Tennessee

    Texas

    Virginia

    Wales

    Wisconsin

    bibliographic sources

    bibliographic sources