A Beginner's Guide to Reading Gregorian Chant Notation

Author: Noel Jones
Publisher: noel jones
ISBN: 1438257481
Category : Gregorian chants
Languages : en
Pages : 78

Book Description
A simple and friendly guide to reading chant notation, the easiest guide in print to make help you learn to read Gregorian Chant fast. We do this by printing out the notes and signs as big as they were back in medieval days. Big notes are easier to read and remember. And when you open the Parish Book of Chant or the Liber Usualis you'll be able to read the notes. In Gregorian Chant notes are arranged like a train....each note or grouping has a clear purpose and when connected to its neighbors makes up a melody. Join the new schola at your church or school and find yourself confident and comfortable reading Gregorian Chant. Reviews: This was a great refresher, it's been years since I sang chant and this brought it all back to me fast! Our schola appreciates how effective this book is, seeing these big notes makes it so much easier to recognize them in today's small printed pages that we usually find in churches.

A Beginner's Guide to Singing Gregorian Chant, Notation, Rhythm and Solfeggio

Author: Noel Jones
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781453692769
Category : Gregorian chants
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A basic guide for beginners interested in understanding the way Gregorian Chant music is written, how the rhythms are sung and using Solfeggio to learn and master chant melodies. An excellent guide for new schola and choir members.

Gregorian Chant for Church and School

Author: Mary Antonine Goodchild
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365341224
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
by Sister Mary Antonine Goodchild, O.P. What a wonderful find this is: an ideal textbook on chant for junior high, high school, or really any age. It is mercifully free of verbiage or exaggerated detail. It is short and completely clear on all aspects of learning to chant (notes, rhythm, Latin, style), and it contains a vast amount of the basic repertoire, in neumes and with English translations. It even has study questions! Many of us have wished that such a book would be written. It took Fr. Samuel Weber to point out that such a book already exists, and now, praise be to God, it is in print again. As the title says, it is the perfect text for Church and school. It came out in 1944 but it isn't in the slightest bit dated. This is priced for mass distribution.

Gregorian Chant

Author: David Hiley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521690355
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
What is Gregorian chant, and where does it come from? What purpose does it serve, and how did it take on the form and features which make it instantly recognizable? Designed to guide students through this key topic, this book answers these questions and many more. David Hiley describes the church services in which chant is performed, takes the reader through the church year, explains what Latin texts were used, and, taking Worcester Cathedral as an example, describes the buildings in which it was sung. The history of chant is traced from its beginnings in the early centuries of Christianity, through the Middle Ages, the revisions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the restoration in the nineteenth and twentieth. Using numerous music examples, the book shows how chants are made and how they were notated. An indispensable guide for all those interested in the fascinating world of Gregorian chant.

Gregorian Chant

Author: David Hiley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316224376
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 455

Chants of the Church

Author: Monks Of Solesmes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258223885
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description

Chanting the Psalms

Author: Cynthia Bourgeault
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 1590302575
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 285

Book Description
Chanting the psalms, or psalmody, is an ancient practice of vital importance in the Christian spiritual tradition. Today many think of it as a discipline that belongs only in monasteries—but psalmody is a spiritual treasure that is available to anyone who prays. You don’t need to be musical or a monk to do it, and it can be enjoyed in church liturgical worship, in groups, or even individually as part of a personal rule of prayer. Cynthia Bourgeault brings the practice into the twenty-first century, providing a history of Christian psalmody as well as an appreciation of its place in contemplative practice today. And she teaches you how to do it as you chant along with her on the accompanying CD in which she demonstrates the basic techniques and easy melodies that anyone can learn. “Even if you can’t read music,” Cynthia says, “or if somewhere along the way you’ve absorbed the message that your voice is no good or you can’t sing on pitch, I’ll still hope to show you that chanting the psalms is accessible to nearly everyone.”

Singing Gregorian Chant Rhythm and Solfeggio

Author: Noel Jones (Musician)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781453768761
Category : Gregorian chants
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
A guide to understanding and singing the rhythms of chant and the use of simple do re mi fa solfeggio to master the notes of chant melodies.

An Introduction to Gregorian Chant

Author: Richard L. Crocker
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300083101
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description
Richard L. Crocker offers in this book and its accompanying compact disc an introduction to the history and meaning of the Gregorian chant. He explains how Gregorian chant began, what functions and meanings it had over time, who heard it and where, and how it was composed, learned, written down and handed on. Crocker explains Gregorian chant and its functions within modern catholic liturgy as well as its position outside this liturgy, where the modern listener may hear it just as music. He describes the origins of the chant in the early Middle Ages, details its medieval development and use, and considers how it survived without, and later with, musical notation. The author probes the paradoxical position of the chant in monastic life -- serving as an expression of liturgical fellowship on the one hand and as the medium of solitary mystic ascent on the other. The book also includes a detailed commentary on each of twenty-six complete chants performed by the Orlando Consort and by the author on the accompanying compact disc. --From publisher's description.

An Applied Course in Gregorian Chant.

Author: Institut Grégorien de Paris
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014756787
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
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