A Companion to the New Harp of Columbia

by Marion J. Hatchett

Meticulous in its research, encyclopedic in its detail, this reference volume is the first such work written for a shape-note songbook. Modeled on the various guidebooks to contemporary denominational hymnals, it provides commentary on every text, tune, author, and composer represented in M. L. Swan's New Harp of Columbia, a shape-note book originally published in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1867.

The shape-note tradition first flourished in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572332034
• ISBN13: 9781572332034
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.4"