Written for people who do or do not read music.
Noel Jones, AAGO , Edited by Ellen Jones, CAGO
List Price: $29.95
8" x 10" (20.32 x 25.4 cm) -----------------------------VIDEO
110 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1460904770
Using the first line of this carol, first we explore modern music notation and strip away all of the signs and symbols that are necessary for reading modern music but are not necessary when singing chant.
-------Once we've gotten the simple melody exposed than we begin to add the simple signs and marks that you need to know to sing chant. You will be surprised how easy they are to learn and how logical they are as well.
-------The clefs in chant are easy to learn and understand - there are only two of them - and we show how they slide up and down a sort of chant ladder with the rungs being Do Re Me Fa So La Ti Do.
-------To sing chant you only need to know how to sing these notes plus one more, TE. It's that easy.
-------Colors are important. There have been chant editions that use colors to help you find the notes and we have gone one step further and expanded the use of color in teaching chant.
-------This book doesn't just tell you what the signs and symbols mean, it also teaches you how to mark them in your chant score so that when they come up in the music you will be prepared to sing them with confidence.
-------Free audio files on our website let you sing along and learn as you go..