Early American
This section contains mostly some experiments with a Yamaha PSS-480 synthesizer and early American “fuging tunes“. There are a few other recordings mixed in among the lot, some with real instruments and singing, but the bulk of the songs use the Yamaha PSS. These recordings were made a few years after I discovered an original […]
In the late 1980’s I discovered early American shapenote, or “Sacred Harp” music and began singing, collecting, and publishing some of the tunes in small hand-made songbooks. The first book was just a collection of tunes from The Hesperian Harp, William Houser’s shapenote songbook which was published in 1848. I had located a copy of […]
