Free Chant Flash-Sheets for Coloring and Testing
  • noel jones, aagonoel jones, aago
    Posts: 6,605
    For download at www.basicchant.com under TEACHING CHILDREN CHANT

    For Children & Adults

    These evolved as a sort of side project while creating our Gregorian Chant for Children & Adults Coloring Book and we decided to release them now.

    Crayons & Markers Ready?
  • MaryAnn Carr WilsonMaryAnn Carr Wilson
    Posts: 1,738
    Thanks, Noel! I will use these with beginning choristers and my own children.
    If you are still between employment opportunities, no one can say you are wasting time promoting chant! The site looks great, and thanks for your work.
  • noel jones, aagonoel jones, aago
    Posts: 6,605
    One message like yours makes this all worthwhile! Thanks. I can add more chant pages to the sheets...anyone wanting to make suggestions - episema and so on, I'll consider them.

    The big thing is the coloring...using art to engrave in the brain the shape.

    Many people seem to see chant as a totally linear thing, start here and go through the maze to get there, the end. By working with the Graduale Simplex which uses neume groupings sparingly, it seems easier to view the neume groupings as glorious elaborations, ornamentations on a single note that has exploded, seemingly on its own, into something of beauty.

    And that's the glory of the Graduale Romanum....the more difficult chants are a fireworks show op epic proportions....and sometimes become an epic fail, proving our humanity.

    But we all try to sing like angels and are auditioning for that choir everyday.
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