Performance Practice Of Sacred Harp Music
The performance practice of Sacred Harp music denotes the customary styles that are not expressed in the musical notation itself.
Note that the term performance practice is used in a broad way; Sacred Harp singing is participatory, not audience-oriented, and thus is not really "performed" in a traditional sense.
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