A simple and friendly guide to reading chant notation.
In Gregorian Chant notes are arranged like a train....each note or grouping has a clear purpose and connected to its neighbors make as melody.
This book teaches how to see them, read them and sing them. It was created for self-teaching, individual instruction, choir training or chant workshops.
Mr. Jones uses this book in a class lasting only 45' in which those participating are able to begin singing and following chant notation by the end of the class.
Noel Jones
Noel Jones first sang chant in a choir of men and boys and followed that up by chanting daily masses before he was a teenager in a small town in Ohio.
Summer studies with Benedictine monks took him further along the chant path prior to his leaving for New York City where he directed Catholic choirs and was organist at the Church Center for the United Nations as well as accompanist for the United Nations Singers. Later in Germany he was organist for the English masses at the DOM Cathedral in Frankfurt.
Then, living in Italy, he played for masses at Il Duomo in Barga, Italy and produced and conducted the town's annual San Cristoforo Day celebration concert in the 11th century church.
Working as a church organ designer, he eventually located in Tennessee, where he joined the staff of a St. John Neumann Catholic church as director of music, involved in returning church music to chant and polyphony.
He and Mary C. Weaver have founded Musicam Sacram, a CMAA chapter in East Tennessee.
He is an Associate of the American Guild of Organists. He serves as Creative Director of www.frogmusic.com.
His wife, Ellen Doll Jones, is a church musician as well and works with Noel as a co-editor on projects. They both perform organ recitals, often playing duets. They live on a farm in East Tennessee.
Book graphic design and layout • Noel Jones
www.sjnmusic.com • Website of St. John Neumann Church
www.musicasacra.com • The Church Music Association of America
www.musicamsacram.com • East Tennessee Chapter of CMAA
Other Projects by Noel Jones:
www.thecatholichymnal.com
For information about workshops or concerts: noel jones