Sentence examples for singing schools from inspiring English sources

Shape notes are a variant system of Western musical notation whereby the note heads are printed in distinct shapes to indicate their scale degree and solmization syllable (fa, sol, la, etc).. Since 1801 shape notes have been associated with American sacred music, specifically with singing schools, with musical conventions, and with all-day gatherings known as "singings".

She was discovered by an MGM casting director searching Los Angeles singing schools for someone to portray the opera star Ernestine Schumann-Heink as a child.

After the American Civil War, singing schools and shape notes became increasingly identified with the South, while declining in popularity in other regions.

Singing schools in Baltimore were few in number until the 1830s.

These singing schools were taught by instructors known as masters, or singing masters, and were often itinerant; they taught vocal performance and techniques for use in Christian psalmody.

They've just arrived from one of their Northumberland singing schools and have never been to this part of Ireland before.

But many proved unable to hold back tears, whether singing school songs or joining in the brief after-graduation party.

New girls soon learn the traditions, some of which sound archaic: picking daisies for your old girl, cooking her breakfast, singing school songs in the yard.

According to an article in The Dallas Morning News, when he was 10 he and Doyle wanted badly to go to singing school at a church three miles away, but they lacked the tuition of $3 each for 10 nights.

The boy, who, as he recalled in Singing School, realised that "what I most wanted in the world to do was to write poems", matured into the man that published his first volume, The Astronomy of Love, in 1961.

Tiny, wiry and urchin-cropped, she has an ethereal voice from the Cocteau Twins/Portishead singing school, and her group has been getting stacks of Radio 1 and 6Music airplay.