Jesse Thomas White arranged this variant of “Bethany,” a song contributed by Solomon Howe to the ca. 1804 Psalm-Singer’s Amusement, for the 1844 first edition of The Sacred Harp. Although James followed the practice of competing Sacred Harp revisionist Wilson Marion Cooper in adding alto parts to the book’s songs, “[i]n all tunes which could not be improved by adding alto, it has been left out.” In practice, the Original Sacred Harp’s editors added alto parts to the vast majority of tunes. “Edgefield” is one of only twenty-two that remain in three-part settings in the tunebook today.