Basic training for singers
1 A Beginner's Guide To Reading Gregorian Chant Notation
• A simple explanation of the way chant melodies are written and read.
Large size notes, the way they were originally mean to be seen, make it easy to recognize and sing them in modern small chant editions. Espagnol
76 Pages • 6" by 9" • ISBN: 1438257481 • More Info • YouTube • Purchase $12.95
2 A Beginner's Guide To Singing Gregorian Chant Notation, Rhythm and Solfeggio
• Expanded to explain how notes can be altered when singing (rhythm) and the DO, RE, MI notes for singing (solfege).
Conductors lead you through chants, knowing the rhythms that they are leading and being able to sight sing using DO.
200 Pages • ISBN: 1453692762 • 6" by 9" • More info • Purchase $21.95
4 A Gregorian Chant Coloring Book For Children And Adults
• Coloring the book leads you into quickly understanding what can be confusing issues with chamt.
Centuries ago it was discoved that using color makes it much easier to learn to read and sing chant. This book uses those techniques to prepare you to sing today's modern chant books printed only in black and white. 80 Pages • 8" BY 10" • ISBN-10: 1453843191 • More info • YouTube STUDENT EDITION: BLACK AND WHITE Purchase: 9.95 TEACHER EDITION: FULL COLOR Purchase:$24.95
5 If You Can Sing “Joy to the World” You Can Learn To Read And Sing Gregorian Chant
• Begining with the first line of "Joy to" all modern music notation is stripped down to the bare essentials.
Using the brief melody we learn to sing all 8 notes of chant and then learn to sing them in all the ways possible in chant melodies. This includes audio teaching files for computer, iPhone or iPad. 110 Pages • ISBN:-13: 978-14609047708" by 10" • Full Color • More info • YouTube • Purchase: $24.95
Chant Staff Notebook
Gregorian Chant Blank Staff Notebook
100 pages • ISBN: 1453812660 • 8.25" by 6" • Purchase $9.95
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How this all got started:
Hired to be director of music and prepare a choir and congregation for moving into a new, large basilica being built with live, resonant acoustics, I fell back on my background as a Catholic musician in the 1950's singing chant every day. Summers spent studying and singing chant with Benedictine monks helped, followed by years working as a church and theater musician in Italy, Germany and the US.
Joining Musica Sacra [www.musicasacra.com] and participating in the forum and then a weekend of training in Alabama, I renewed ny interest in chant. I created the first book above for my own choir members to help them get over fear of chant. The later books were developed to provide more resources. They all were created as I searched out better ways to explain chant in simple terms.
Noel Jones, AAGO