178 Africa - Second Ireland Sacred Harp Convention, 2012
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- 178 Africa, led by Lisa O'Grady at the second Ireland Sacred Harp convention, March 3rd & 4th, 2012
Video by Seamus Hegarty. Audio by Danny Forde.
Full audio recordings available at corksacredharp....
Beautifully done! Here are the lyrics:
Now shall my inward joys arise,
And burst into a song;
Almighty love inspires my heart,
And pleasure tunes my tongue.
God, on His thirsty Zion’s hill,
Some mercy drops has thrown;
And solemn oaths have bound His love
To show’r salvation down.
Why do we then indulge our fears,
Suspicions and complaints?
Is He a God, and shall His grace
Grow weary of His saints?
My favorite Sacred Harp hymn tune
The singer's expression, the woman on the left, at 1:15 says everything one needs to know about music, singing, and shape note singing. Beautiful.
Wow! I want to learn this! Not only are these wonderfully sung but kudos to the audio/video team for great sound and filming!! You caught great smiles & facial expressions of love & joy.
So wonderful it practically hurts to watch
My absolute favorite tune from Sacred Harp.
My first time singing this, the last verse just surprised the heck out of me. A little reading seemed to indicate that the text is the work of Isaac Watts who is apparently regarded the "Godfather of English hymnody;" however, he was also jailed twice for being a non-conformist and ended up writing a book on LOGIC which became the standard textbook at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Yale--being used at Oxford for well over 100 years!!
@@calciumchloride710 thank u for that interesting information!
it looks like it would be wonderful to be surrounded by that sound and smiling loving crowd of facing seats.
I think you've summed up quite accurately the feeling of many of us watchers. Oh to be there!
It is. Come on in and join us sometime. All are welcome, no charge, ever.
Oh, indeed! It IS wonderful! You must try it yourself - don't take my word for it! Go to www.fasola.org and look under Singings to find one near you. Just go. AND sing! :-)
It is! It is!
There are some rare occurences where people, location, circumstances etc. cumulate into a one of a kind interpretation, al least for me this one is oft his kind. I quite often play this one.
Looking forward to my first sing with Portland (OR) Sacred Harp next week!!!
Joanne Orengo how was it? How well attended was it?
I think I have listened to this 100 times.
Now shall my inward joys arise,
And burst into a song;
Almighty love inspires my heart,
And pleasure tunes my tongue.
Why do we then indulge our fears,
Suspicions and complaints?
Is He a God, and shall His grace
Grow weary of His saints?
How do the singers know what sound words
to sing in the warm up?
@@johnmcglone4 They are 'singing the shapes,' or using a type of solfege. Each note of the scale gets a name; generally do, re, me, fa, so, la, ti and do again. In this music, it is a little different: fa, so, la, fa, so, la, me and fa again. A shape in the musical notation tells the singer what syllable to use. Then they sing the tune with the lyrics.
Beautiful
"..and burst into song!" Thanks for your smiles and your enthusiasm! Don't lose that and never forget who you are singing too.
That kind of depends on who you ask, doesn't it? I think we all would agree that we are singing for ourselves and those around us, while others would say that we are singing for God as well.
My church used to sing this one when I was a little girl. Friends moved away, church split, tied were severed with many of them but hearing this brings back memories of that time. Still remember all the words.
A favorite Shape Note Hymn, sounding great by a large Class.
Now shall my inward joys arise,
And burst into a song;
Almighty love inspires my heart,
And pleasure tunes my tongue.
God, on His thirsty Zion’s hill,
Some mercy drops has thrown;
And solemn oaths have bound His love
To show’r salvation down.
Why do we then indulge our fears,
Suspicions and complaints?
Is He a God, and shall His grace
Grow weary of His saints?
www.sacredharpbremen.org/lieder/100-bis-199/178-africa
Inspiring!
This fills my heart so much.
why is the title, Africa?
This surely pleases God
May I know what's the title of this hymn? Thank you in advance for the response
The name of the tune (music) is Africa. I don't know if the poetry has a title (Now shall my inward joys arise, etc)
As noted: 178 AFRICA -- as it appears in the Sacred Harp, 1991 edition
Tune: William Billings 1770
Words: Isaac Watts 1709
Here they sing the first 3 stanzas of Hymn 39 by Watts
On occasion, Hymn 39 is subtitled: God's Tender Care of His Church
While I feel the tempo should be considerably faster, otherwise the performance is hauntingly beautiful.
Each to his (or her) own. I think this is the perfect tempo. In fact, a bit slower would be even better. That is what I'm used to hearing it sung at, and it seems like it would be strange to hear it sung faster. Which is odd, because here in New England the usual tradition seems to be to sing faster than the Southern singers do it for most songs.
God bless the Irish but, they don't have the raw earthy spirituality of the southern singers yet.
No, but they have their own songs to express that in. And they sound wonderful singing these tunes.
Old family Southerners and the Irish are the same people.
They sound far better than southerners
Beautiful