Shenandoah Harmony

[3][4] Authentic South reporter Kelley Libby of WFAE, attending an all-day singing in Cross Keys, felt "transported to the Shenandoah Valley of the 1800s.

[7][8] The popularity of the regional tunebook outside of the core area can be attributed to a design that has been optimized for sight-singing: "visually attractive, the songs are easy to read ... and the book feels good in your hand.

"[9][10] Another reason is that shape note singers love minor-key songs,[11] and the Shenandoah Harmony satisfies this peculiarity more than any other publication in current use, 52% of the tunes being minor.

[14] The Shenandoah Harmony has been called a "curatorial" compilation of fasola repertoire from the mid-Atlantic region[15] paying special attention to the works of Ananias Davisson.

[21] In 2010, the del Re family of Boyce, Virginia, who had been singing from publications of Ananias Davisson for 25 years, were joined by other singers who reviewed thousands of nineteenth-century shape-note songs from over seventy sources, as well as new compositions.