A collection of tunes sung by local NC singers

NC Singers

Small group singing during the early days of the pandemic, 2020

335 Return Again

127 Green Fields

New Orleans - DPBH 255

Primitive Baptist Hymnal

PBH 268 - Wonderful Grace of Jesus

1981 St. Louis Youth Meeting

Something Beautiful/It Is No Secret: Band Song

This multitrack recording is an experiment in using vocal ornamentation.  The bass and treble part have been slightly altered to suit the range of my voice.

SH 399t The Dying Friend - Multitrack

56b Villulia from the 1991 edition of The Sacred Harp. 

Recorded at the mid-week, snow-day singing in Brooklyn, NY on 3/21/2018.

Tune: J. M. Day, 1850
Words: John Newton, 1779
More info: https://fasola.org/indexes/1991/?p=56b

56b Villulia

Recordings from a little home singing à 4 on January 26th, 2019 in Schillerkiez, Berlin, Germany.  We sang from the Sacred Harp, the Shenandoah Harmony, the Southern and Western Pocket Harmonist, Wakefield's Christian Harp, and a new composition by Evelyn Saylor and Marco Wessnigk called Mortal Frame.

SH 135 Olney

SH 290 Victoria

Singing Through the Sacred Harp

SH 26 Samaria

During the COVID-19 quarantine Sadhbh, Liora, and I sang some tunes together apart. 

Mastering by Sadhbh.

CH 262 Collins

CB 464 Hocutt

Here's a piece I wrote early last year, Autumn, right as I got to Pennsylvania! It has been on YouTube, but in reorganizing my soundcloud, I've put it here as well. Enjoy, thanks.

Picture is of the Washington CT Congregational Church.

Autumn CM (Keillor 7 Shape)

Here is, I guess, my favorite piece I wrote this year, called Willow, named for a small town in the Catskills. One of my favorite pieces in the Christian Harmony is Samanthra, for how it treats these amazing words by Joseph Swain. But I always found myself singing them to my own tune, which I later harmonized into this piece. I hope it finds you well! 

Thanks for the continued support. 

As a funnier side-note, with headphones one might here light chatter in the background, which is the sound of the pizza guy getting the door while I was singing the tenor line. My roommate intercepted the confused Philadelphia man, allowing me to finish the line, however I sang just one verse!

Here is the PDF link: [ https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vPgpbr68fzqSuayEIU91_nLgd820PjF8 ]
 
The words by Joseph Swain I selected:

1. O Thou, in whose presence my soul takes delight,
On whom in affliction I call;
My comfort by day, and my song in the night,
My hope, my salvation, my all.

2. Where dost thou at noon-tide resort with thy sheep,
To feed them in pastures of love?
For why in the valley of death should I weep,
Or alone in the wilderness rove?

3.O why should I wander an alien from thee,
Or cry in the desert for bread?
Thy foes will rejoice, when my sorrows they see,
And smile at the tears I have shed.

4.His voice as the sound of a dulcimer sweet,
Is heard through the shadows of death;
The cedars of Lebanon bow at his feet,
The air is perfumed with his breath.

5.He looks, and ten thousand of angels rejoice,
And myriads wait for his word;
He speaks--and eternity, filled with his voice,
Re-echoes the praise of the her voice.

SH 176b Blooming Youth

L. L. L.

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