The Southern Harmony
& The Sacred Harp

Southern Harmony Editions:

The Southern Harmony

1st ed. (1835): Archive.org
Corrected (1838)
Corrected (1840): Archive.org [1845]
3rd ed. (1847)
New ed. (1847): Archive.org
New ed. (1854)
Facsimile Ed. (1993)

Southern & Western Pocket Harmonist (1845): Archive.org [1860]

The Christian Harmony (1867): Archive.org

Sacred Harp Editions:

The Sacred Harp, B.F. White, Elisha J. King

1st ed. (1844):
2nd ed. (1850): Sounding Spirit
3rd ed. (1859):
Broadman Facsimile (1968):
4th ed. (1870): Sounding Spirit

New Sacred Harp (1884):

The Sacred Harp, edited by W.M. Cooper (1902):

Revised Cooper Ed. (1949)
The B.F. White Sacred Harp (1960)
Revised Cooper Ed. (2000)

The Sacred Harp, edited by J.L. White

5th ed. (1909):
5th ed. (1910): Sounding Spirit
4th ed. with Suppl. (1911): Sounding Spirit

Original Sacred Harp, J.S. James (1911): HathiTrust

Centennial Ed. (2015): Sacred Harp

Original Sacred Harp: Denson Revision (1960)

Denson Revision (1971)
Denson Revision (1986)

The Sacred Harp (2025): Sacred Harp

See also:

Union Harp and History of Songs, J.S. James (1909): Archive.org

Sacred Hymns and Tunes, J.S. James (1913)

The Georgian Harmony (2010)

Related Resources:

J.S. James, A Brief History of the Sacred Harp and Its Author, B.F. White, Sr., and Contributors (Douglasville, GA: NewSouth, 1904): PDF

J.S. James, An Explanation of the Sacred Harp Printed and Published by B.F. White and E.J. King in 1844 (Atlanta: Gordon W. Donaldson, 1920).

George Pullen Jackson, “The Story of the Sacred Harp, 1844–1944,” in The Sacred Harp, facsimile ed. (1964).

Buell E. Cobb, Jr., The Sacred Harp: A Tradition and Its Music (Athens, Georgia, 1978).

Harry Eskew, “William Walker's ‘Southern Harmony’: Its Basic Editions,” Latin American Music Review, vol. 7, no. 2 (Autumn/Winter, 1986), pp. 137–148.

Harry Eskew, “Southern Harmony and Its Era,” The Hymn, vol. 41, no. 4 (1990), pp. 28–34: HathiTrust

John Bealle, Public Worship, Private Faith: Sacred Harp and American Folksong (1997): Amazon

Kiri Miller, Traveling Home: Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism (2007): Amazon

Chloe Webb, Legacy of the Sacred Harp (2010): Amazon

David Warren Steel & Richard Hulan, The Makers of the Sacred Harp (Urbana: University of Illinois, 2010): Amazon
Errata: https://home.olemiss.edu/~mudws/errata.html

Laura Clawson, I Belong to This Band, Hallelujah!: Community, Spirituality, and Tradition among Sacred Harp Singers (2011): Amazon

Kathryn Eastburn, Sacred Feast: Reflections on Sacred Harp Singing and Dinner on the Ground (2013): Amazon