Chiquitunga Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 (edited) This book came out a few years ago, published by [url="http://www.abbeyofreginalaudis.com/"]Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, CT[/url]. [img]http://www.abbeyofreginalaudis.com/sitelive/cds/gcmc.jpg[/img] [i][url="http://www.abbeyofreginalaudis.com/sitelive/cds/masterclass/masterclass.htm"]A Gregorian Chant Master Class[/url][/i], by Dr. Theodore Marier, K.C.S.G. I've only gone through the first part of it, but so far I've found it great in trying to learn and understand better Gregorian Chant & notation. This past issue of the [url="http://www.adoremus.org/0703News.html#anchor241851"][i]Adoremus Bulletin[/i][/url], has something on it. Also at this [url="http://www.theabbeyshop.com/product_info.php?products_id=40"]Abbey Shop in the UK[/url] Edited July 17, 2007 by Margaret Clare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missionseeker Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 I love this book. If you have any questions it doesn't answer, you can PM me if you want. I MIGHT be able to help. I've been "studying" Chant for about 5 years. I have a few books and have taken classes on it, so I guess you can say I have. Anywhoo, feel free to ask! (If I don't know, I'm pretty sure I know someone who can, I know Scott Turkington [who finished the book after Dr. Marier died] and Fr. Skeris at CUA who taught the class). And a bunch of other chant enthusiasts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totus Tuus Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 (edited) There is a workshop type thing that sounds really neat for learning chant (it seems religious are the only people who usually get to participate in those It's for lay people. I think it's in California... Edited July 17, 2007 by Totus Tuus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiquitunga Posted July 17, 2007 Author Share Posted July 17, 2007 Thanks guys! Yeah, I'm trying to learn more about how to read the notation and everything. I'm familiar with ordinary musical notation, but Gregorian Chant is pretty different. This book seems to be the best place to start! :j Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffpugh Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 I know basic stuff about reading chant... I sing with a guy who was a Benedictine seminarian for 5 years. Then he got married... God Bless him for that though, cause now he's helping spread the traditional music of Chant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missionseeker Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 There are quite a few chant workshops throughout the country. There's even one in Alabama, of all places! I know that my schola at school really would like to hold one near(ish to) Atlanta. But I think that that's a year or so at least down the road. This website is a great resource too. It has all sorts of info about chant and things related to chant. www.ceciliaschola.org I would definitely reccomend that anyone new(ish) to or even well aquainted with chant peruse this website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totus Tuus Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 I forgot to mention that the chant workshop at Clear Creek Monastery in Oklahoma is really good. But I'm not sure that women can participate (only men participated last month when my dad and brothers went). Missionseeker - What part of Alabama? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Chiquitunga Posted July 22, 2007 Author Share Posted July 22, 2007 We have an old the [b][i]Liber Usualis[/i][/b] at home that I've been using also, particularly to look up the text and notation of particular hymns I like. That book is pretty much the compilation of everything right? - except probably some special feastdays with antiphons/hymns for different orders maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missionseeker Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 Yes. (I want one of those sooo badly.) Newer feast days and such aren't in there. But almost everything else is. I hope they start reprinting them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiquitunga Posted July 22, 2007 Author Share Posted July 22, 2007 Thanks! There seems to be the complete text of it here - [url="http://www.musicasacra.com/2007/07/17/liber-usualis-online/"]Liber Usualis online[/url] You could check eBay also. But it's likely that it will come out again soon. :j Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missionseeker Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 Thanks! i had no idea about that. I would check eBay, but I'm afraid that for a starving college student trying to by books, that could be a near occassion of sin. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiquitunga Posted July 22, 2007 Author Share Posted July 22, 2007 [quote name='Totus Tuus' post='1333644' date='Jul 18 2007, 09:03 AM']I forgot to mention that the chant workshop at Clear Creek Monastery in Oklahoma is really good. But I'm not sure that women can participate (only men participated last month when my dad and brothers went).[/quote] The CDs they send in the mail asking for donations are great! They are available also on their site - [url="http://www.clearcreekmonks.org/CDforSell.htm"]Gregorian Chant CDs[/url] I really love the one of the Mass for the Solemnity of the Assumption. I especially love the Alleluia antiphon, [i]Alleluia, Assumpta Est Maria[/i] It is so incredibly beautiful - one of my all time favorites in Gregorian Chant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiquitunga Posted July 22, 2007 Author Share Posted July 22, 2007 (edited) Here are [url="http://www.bakersfield.net/photography/slideshows/nuns/"]Norbertine Canonesses[/url] chanting the first couple verses of, [url="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15396a.htm"][i]Vexilla Regis Prodeunt[/i][/url], a beautiful hymn. [center][img]http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/5643/lu0575cd7.gif[/img][/center] They are singing a slightly different version though than this from the Liber Usualis. There was something on the change in the New Advent article: "The correctors of the Breviary under Urban VIII revised the whole hymn in the interest of classical prosody." I couldn't figure it out though until I got to this site - [url="http://www.preces-latinae.org/thesaurus/Hymni/Vexilla.html"]Vexilla Regis[/url] They are singing the 1st and 3rd stanzas here from the text before the changes made in 1632. I believe the newer verses in the Liber Usualis are basically the same meaning though. Edited July 22, 2007 by Margaret Clare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiquitunga Posted July 22, 2007 Author Share Posted July 22, 2007 (edited) Also, in [url="http://www.teresadelosandes.org/anglais/a_video_teresa.php"]clip 5 here[/url] from the movie on St. Teresa of the Andes, which just aired on EWTN, they are singing the last two verses of, [i]O Gloriosa Virginum[/i], a hymn often sung when a new postulant enters Carmel :j [center][img]http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/9595/lu1314hy4.gif[/img][/center] Edited July 22, 2007 by Margaret Clare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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