CHANT COURSE at St Basil's Chapel -
  • M. Jackson Osborn
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    ST. BASIL'S SCHOOL OF GREGORIAN CHANT - Houston, Texas
    Announces the spring 2010 eight week Saturday morning intensive couse in Gregorian Chant. Those attending will learn basic chant reading, singing, and praying the liturgy in chant. In addition, a special university, seminary and medical school guest faculty will provide lectures on the historical development of the liturgy and chant, the psychology and holistic dimension of singing chant, the theology of chant and the liturgy, and chant in historical manuscripts. The class will have learned a complete mass, plainsong hymns, psalmody and singing in the 'chant voice'. The Trinity propers will be sung by the by-invitation schola. The Saturday sessions take place in the acoustically magnificent and holy chapel of St Basil, located on the campus of the University of St Thomas. The dates are every Satuday morning, 10 April through (all day) 29 May 2010. The sessions culminate in praying the solemn vigil of the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity on 29 May. M Jackson Osborn is the choirmaster and lecturer. Lowell A Davis is the executive director. Contact information is www.gregorianchantschool.org. E-mail us at Notes@gregorianchant school.org.
  • rollingrj
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    What a wonderful opportunity! How can this idea be used around the country?
  • Erik P
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  • M. Jackson Osborn
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    Erik - Re guest chantmasters -- just before lent we had a three day winter workshop featuring Fr Columba. We had about 55 people (one from Ohio!) register for it and it was a Great Sucess. You might want to consider him. We are looking into having workshops by others of similar stature, perhaps even Dom Saulnier in the future. There is a tuition for our courses - one in the spring, one in the summer, and one in the fall, always finishing up with the Latin NO vigil of a major feast. The course which we began today has about twenty (including several choirmasters, cantors and deacons) and will finish on the vigil of the M H Trinity. You can see the syllabus on our website. Many thanks for the encouragement. We have a standing schola of eight by-invitation members who rehearse on Wednesday evenings at UST. (P.S. - the ordinary which we are teaching at this current course is Mass IV-Cunctipotens genitor Deus.)
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