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Well said

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Good article Turnip. Studying the music of a people is a good way to study their culture, as music is something everyone can understand to some degree or another, but also something that every culture does slightly differently.

Are you familiar with Sacred Harp singing? It’s more of a New England/Old South thing than an Oklahoma thing, and something I associate less with Lutherans than with Appalachian congregations in the east, though it’s becoming more widespread across the country. It’s a singing tradition that goes back to the first half-century of American independence and uses shape note notation instead of the conventional key signatures. It’s very beautiful, very Protestant, and thoroughly American.

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This is great. I am thankful to be the pastor of a Presbyterian church that still embraces the tradition of singing metrical psalms; one of our members is the publisher of a boutique press that releases critical editions of old Reformed works. He and the retired pastor worked together to publish an excellent Psalter which has been in service at our church now for some 4 years and is currently in the process of being revised. We use the Trinity Hymnal as well in the morning; our evening service is Exclusive Psalmody; a capella, in the Westminsterian Reformed tradition.

Thanks for this article, Turnip.

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love the article

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Yes, more

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I need to get my hands on a copy of “An Introduction to the Singing of Psalm Tunes”

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