Talk:Sacred Harp/Archives/2005

Removal of tune "Africa"

I removed the tune name "Africa" from this section - He retitled many old songs. These songs were formerly named by their tune, using arbitrarily chosen place names ("New Britain", "Northfield", "Africa"). The new names were based on the text; thus "New Britain" became "Amazing Grace", "Northfield" become "How Long, Dear Savior", and so on. Though "Africa" is an old William Billings tune, it was only recently added to the Sacred Harp, and not a part of the book when Cooper revised it in 1902. I replaced it with "Charlestown" - no particular reason other than this was one I could quickly think of that sounded like a place name, and was one that Cooper changed in his book. - Rlvaughn 02:47, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)