The Southern harmony & musical companion : containing a choice collection of tunes, hymns, psalms, odes, and anthems, selected from the most eminent authors in the United States and well adapted to Christian churches of every denomination, singing schools, and private societies : with a musical anthology on compact disc / [compiled] by William Walker ; edited by Glenn C. Wilcox.

Partial contents: Contents of Big Singing compact disc: New Britain (Amazing grace) -- Holy manna -- Happy land -- Sweet rivers -- Resignation -- Pisgah -- O come, come away -- Greenland -- David's lamentation -- Jerusalem -- Alabama -- Rock of ages -- Newburgh -- Thorny desert -- Ortonville -- Green fields -- Indian convert -- Disciple -- Long sought home -- Willoughby -- Wondrous love -- Coronation -- Ionia -- Bozrah -- King of peace -- Lone pilgrim -- New haven -- Easter anthem -- Christian's farewell.

For 3-4 voices; shape-note notation.
Includes compact disc titled Big Singing: an anthology of Southern Harmony performances from the Big Singing of Benton, Kentucky, 1966-1992. (CD-9354 ; [U.S.] : Pro Musicamericana, p1993.).
"This is the fifth printing of the 1854 edition of Southern harmony, and musical companion"--T.p. verso.
Originally published: Philadelphia : E.W. Miller, 1854. With index (rev.) from the 1966 ed., new introd., and compact disc with 29 hymns recorded at the Big Singing of Benton, Kentucky, 1966-1992.
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