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With your help, we'll have complete details for every 1991 Sacred Harp tune

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Portland singer Anna Stoerch has shared her pet project with the world: compiling complete details for every tune in the 1991 revision of The Sacred Harp tunebook. 

Entering author, composer, time signature, and so on for every tune would take one person a long time, but with everyone's help, it'll be done before you can say "Lord Revive Us".

When the data's ready, we'll create a form that will let you search the collection to find all the minor songs...in 2/4...that were written between 1950 and 2000...that contain major chords...it'll be a Great Day indeed!

So take a couple minutes, open your book, and do some data entry for the benefit of singers everywhere - then enter your comments on sheet 2, add yourself as a contributor on sheet 3, and tell all your friends!

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Dec 12, 2011
acolleenjones said...
This is probably a dumb question, but is the composer listed on the right-hand side of the music and the lyricist on the left? Or is it the other way around? If it says something like "Southern Harmony", do we put that in for the composer or leave it blank?
Dec 12, 2011
Tom McTighe said...
Hi! Yes, in the Denson book, the person who wrote the words is listed on the upper left, and the person who wrote the shapes is listed on the upper right. On page 24, the only clue we get is "Christian Harmony", so the singer who added that row to the spreadsheet dutifully recorded that detail. For now just add whatever you see in the book to the spreadsheet. If there's nothing at all listed for author, or nothing listed for composer (see page 54), put "Unknown."

Special thanks for being the first to comment!

Dec 14, 2011
Clarissa said...
Hi Tom, I can't figure out how to turn off autofill for date - When I go to type the time signature, I type "3/4" and it immediately turns it into "3/4/2011." It won't even let me backspace and delete just the "/2001." It deletes the whole thing. I turned off "Enable autocomplete" under Tools at the top, but it's still making it a date. Any suggestions?
Dec 14, 2011
Tom McTighe said...
Hi Clarissa - I formatted the whole column as "plain text," which seems to have fixed things. Thanks for your help!

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