Editing Polyphony (section)

===Protestant Britain and the United States===
English Protestant [[west gallery music]] included polyphonic multi-melodic harmony, including [[fuguing tune]]s, by the mid-18th century. This tradition passed with emigrants to North America, where it was proliferated in tunebooks, including [[shape-note]] books like ''[[The Southern Harmony]]'' and ''[[The Sacred Harp]]''. While this style of singing has largely disappeared from British and North American sacred music, it survived in the rural [[Southern United States]], until it again began to grow a following throughout the United States and even in places such as the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, and Australia, among others.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Temperley |first1=Nicholas |last2=Manns |first2=Charles G. |author-link1=Nicholas Temperley |date=1983 |title=Fuging Tunes in the Eighteenth Century |location=Detroit, MI |publisher=Information Coordinators |isbn=0-89990-017-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Cobb |first=Buell E. |date=1989 |title=The Sacred Harp: A Tradition and Its Music |location=Athens |publisher=University of Georgia Press |isbn=978-0-8203-2371-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis |last=Lueck |first=Ellen |date=2017 |title= Sacred Harp Singing in Europe: Its Pathways, Spaces, and Meanings |url=https://doi.org/10.14418/wes01.3.69 |type=PhD |publisher=Wesleyan University|doi=10.14418/wes01.3.69 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Karlsberg |first=Jesse P. |date=2021 |editor-last1=Shenton |editor-first1=Andrew |editor-last2=Smolko |editor-first2=Joanna |title=Christian Sacred Music in the Americas |location=Lanham, MD |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |pages=221–240 |chapter=The Folk Scholarship Roots and Geopolitical Boundaries of Sacred Harp’s Global Twenty-first Century |isbn=978-1-5381-4873-0}}</ref>