Reading music – Week 5 – End of the introduction sessions.
Thank you for all who came this past Monday for this conclusion to our 5 introductory lessons. These five sessions focused on the elementary theory of reading chant, the development of a home practice discipline and providing assistance to that home practice by reviewing exercises in our sessions.
Continue reading →Reading chant, Summer 2025 workshop
The choir at St Peter and St Paul (SSPP) church in Wilmington, CA had on Monday the first chant-reading workshop. We will have two more on July 21st and 28th, before a break, and will resume on August 18th. These workshops are independent of the repertoire sung by the SSPP choir, so if singers in the Long Beach-San Pedro area are wanting to learn to read chant, please join us!
Continue reading →GUIDO OF AREZZO AND THE INVENTION OF THE STAVE
Below is reproduced the full Chapter 20 (pages 442-464) from the book “The Christian West and its singers, the first thousand years” by Christopher Page.
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Long Beach Chant 