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American Harmony: Inspired Choral Miniatures from New England, Appalachia, the Mid-Atlantic, the South, and the Midwest Edited by Nym Cooke. Boston: David R. Godine, 2017.
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American Harmony: Inspired Choral Miniatures from New England, Appalachia, the Mid-Atlantic, the South, and the Midwest Edited by Nym Cooke. Boston: David R. Godine, 2017.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 April 2022
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1 Other recent shape-note compilations include: Dakan, Myles Louis et al. , eds., The Shenandoah Harmony: A Collection of Shape-Note Tunes, Ancient and Modern, for Singing Groups Large or Small (Boyce, VA: Shenandoah Harmony Publishing Company, 2012)Google Scholar; Gordon, Larry and Barrand, Anthony G., eds., Northern Harmony: Plain Tunes, Fuging Tunes and Anthems from the Early and Contemporary New England Singing Traditions, 5th edition (Marshfield, VT: Northern Harmony Publishing Company, 2012)Google Scholar; Marini, Stephen A. et al. , eds., The Norumbega Harmony: Historic and Contemporary Hymn Tunes and Anthems from the New England Singing School Tradition (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2003)Google Scholar. Cooke's anthology also joins recent editions of historical shape-note tunebooks still in use, including Lee, Johnny and Willard, Karen, eds., The Sacred Harp: Revised Cooper Edition (Samson, AL: Sacred Harp Book Company, 2012)Google Scholar; Hollingsworth, John et al. , eds., The Christian Harmony (Bishop, GA: Christian Harmony Music Company, 2010)Google Scholar.
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