THE HARMONIA SACRA,
BEING A COMPILATION OF
GENUINE CHURCH MUSIC,
COMPRISING A GREAT VARIETY OF METRES,
Harmonized for Three and Four Voices:
TOGETHER WITH A COPIOUS EXPLICATION OFTHE PRINCIPLES OF VOCAL MUSIC.EXEMPLIFIED AND ILLUSTRATED WITH TABLES,IN A PLAIN AND COMPREHENSIVE MANNER.BY JOSEPH FUNK AND SONS.
“And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”—ISAIAH
TWENTY-SIXTH EDITION
Newly typeset, corrected and improved and provided online in both seven and four shape notation.
Typeset by James Nelson Gingerich and published online by James Nelson Gingerich & Will Fitzgerald
2008
Welcome
Newly typeset, corrected and improved and provided online in both seven and four shape notation.
Typeset by James Nelson Gingerich and published online by James Nelson Gingerich & Will Fitzgerald
2008
Welcome
The Harmonia Sacra is a shape-note tunebook in the Mennonite tradition. Originally published in 1832 by Joseph Funk as A Compilation of Genuine Church Music, it has gone through twenty-six editions. This on-line version provides both seven-shape and four-shape ("Sacred Harp"-style) versions of tunes.
Ordering
Unfortunately, the 26th edition is no longer in print.