Nick Gale, the organist and choir director at St George's Cathedral, Southwark, has been doing a sterling job running courses for choirs to introduce them to Gregorian Chant. Today he has passed on details to me of some new CDs that have been produced to help choirs learn some of the basic chants that are frequently in use. Here is the information:
Gregorian chant teaching discs
This week sees the release of the first of three discs of Gregorian Chant produced to assist musical directors, cantors, choirs and congregations learn a Chant repertoire for use in the Liturgy. The discs were recorded by Signum Records, London, and the Chant is sung by three members of the Choir of St George’s Cathedral, Southwark, London, UK and recorded in the Cathedral’s beautiful Lady Chapel under the direction of the Cathedral’s Organist and Master of the Choristers, Nick Gale.
The first disc, Chants of the Ordinary, contains a selection of Mass ordinaries (Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, Ite and Benedicamus Domino) – including complete recordings of Masses I, VIII, IX, X, XI, XV, XVII & XVIII, the Ambrosian Gloria, Credos I, III & VII and a selection of Alleluias. The second and third discs will be released next month and will contain chants for the entire Liturgical Year – all four Marian Antiphons in simple and solemn tones, the Te Deum, chant hymns, antiphons and responses for Advent, Christmas, Candlemas, Lent, Holy Week, the Easter season, Pentecost, Trinity and Christ the King – as well as some more general material and a selection of manageable Communion Antiphons from the Graduale Simplex for general use.
The Discs are priced at GBP £10 (for each disc) plus £2 P&P (£3 for orders outside the UK). To place an order or to ask for a full track list or any other details email Nick Gale Courses in Gregorian Chant in the UK and abroad are also available through www.gregorianchant.org.uk
Nick Gale, the organist and choir director at St George's Cathedral, Southwark, has been doing a sterling job running courses for choirs to introduce them to Gregorian Chant. Today he has passed on details to me of some new CDs that have been produced to help choirs learn some of the basic chants that are frequently in use. Here is the information:
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Perhaps someone can help me.
I've helped form a schola group before that revitalized a parishes liturgical music. At that time we had someone with the knowledge of what goes where leading it.
Now, that I've moved, I want to form another one, but without someone knowledgeable, putting the chant together would fall on me.
I have read many great sources like New Liturgical Movement and various books, but I am wondering if there is a sources that takes someone by the hand and gives them a program for the date. Such as, Christ the King Sunday? Then sing this at this part of the Mass, sing this at this part, and so on. Any such source? Thanks.
I know of no such source I am afraid romishgraffiti. There are plenty of instruction books, some better than others, and the CMAA resources are second to none. However, in terms of a resource for programming, aside from the Graduale (Romanum and Simplex) there is nothing I am aware of. If you email me via my website I would be happy to respond to any specific questions. Nick
Up here in Orkney we have "Ben" doing the impossible: he's created a Schola (we're a small but happy group!) and is teaching Gregorian Chant classes. It's so wonderful to be able to learn Gregorian Chant way out here in what this American considers the lovely "civilized boonies" of Orkney! And all thanks to Ben!
http://orkneychant.blogspot.com/
http://jogueschant.org/chants/ is a fantastic resource for the Novus Ordo. For the extraordinary form, http://www.sanctamissa.org/. They all have PDFs and MP3 downloads for virtually all the chants for Sundays and feast days. Youtube is another brilliant resource for chant. There is always someone who has recorded whatever you're looking for and if you're stuck at when to sing it (particularly in the EF) there is probably a video of that particularly mass somewhere on there as well. And if you're running the choir and you need a resource for hymns as well as chant, you can't beat www.canticanova.com. Well that's all my secrets to running a choir - so now anyone can do it!
Romish,
You need the Parish Book of Chant and the guidebook Psallite Sapienter, both published by CMAA (MusicaSacra.com) and also available as pdfs on their site. The PBC has the order of Mass for both forms, the standard Ordinaries, and a selection of chants arranged seasonally. PS is a simple guide to the EF, sung and spoken. Also available on the CMAA site is Mass and Vespers, a version of the Liber usualis with the chants and--even more helpfully--the rubrics translated into English. Using the order of Mass in PBC and the proper chants as outlined in M&V, with the advice from SP, you are definitely on the way. Read the forums at MusicaSacra and ask questions there, and if you are going to sing for any EF, go through the Mass with the priest who will be celebrating. Ask questions of priests and musicians associated with orders devoted to the EF. Pray for guidance, humility, and protection, and get to work.
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