When we made this video below in 2020 (remember the pandemic?) I still believed that reading music could be taught by the cue system (hear-repeat), and the square note system of notation was just a choice to access the rich history of the Church. I was wrong. The case for learning to read music, and learning with the tools invented by the Church, solfege and MOVABLE DO is much stronger than I thought.

In the links below we develop the:

• Historic argument and “pragmatic” argument (Church Inc…$$$)
• The Moral argument (check again soon)
• The practical argument: a roadmap to get started

The video is still interesting for a history of neumes…

First, why are the notes square? For a “quick answer”, download: Neumes and Square Notes – HB 4-2019

in of instrumentalists wondering how to transpose chant notation into the system they learned for many years.

More questions about chant? click here