simple graduation music
  • CGM
    Posts: 683
    Anyone have any ideas for simple graduation music? I run a little schola at a small Catholic school, and I need to teach the kids a simple song that they can sing at the school's 8th-grade graduation, (a) without direction (since I won't be present), and (b) without accompaniment.

    Gaudeamus igitur?
    Words to Pomp & Circumstance?
    A simple round?
  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
    Posts: 6,902
    CGM:

    Depending on the age of the children, direction will be there, even if you're not there.

    The words to Pomp and Circumstance often have a reference to Nottingham Forest, so you may want to avoid that.

    Not to nit-pick your question to death, but is graduation music at a Mass, in which a conferral of diplomas will take place, or is it a separate ceremony, or is this a concert connected to the graduation festivities. What one sings will change according to these circumstances.
  • CGM
    Posts: 683
    The day begins with Mass, and then the graduation follows, so the music won't be used in a liturgical setting. There will be 1st-8th graders singing.
  • MarkThompson
    Posts: 768
    Can they learn the canon Non nobis, Domine?
    Thanked by 2melofluent rich_enough
  • CCoozeCCooze
    Posts: 1,259
    THAXTED has some pomp and circumstance to it. ;)
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