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DISCOVERING CHANT
TEACHING MUSICIANSHIP AND HUMAN SENSIBILITIES THROUGH CHANT James Jordan and James Whitbourn with Dominic Gregorio and Steven Pilkington
Discovering Chant asks conductors, teachers, and music educators to reconsider the use of plainchant as an essential pedagogy for teaching intonation, phrasing, and understanding of musical line—while building community within an ensemble. The pedagogy was borne out of the Westminster Choral Institute at Oxford, where chant has become a part of the daily regimen of the Grammy-nominated Westminster Williamson Voices.
The companion volume to this text, Laudate, is a collection of chants presented so all musicians—not only liturgists or specialist singers—can explore a repertory so rich and extraordinary that it has dominated and influenced musical composition for centuries, even to the present day.
G-8812 Hardcover, 243 pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $32 .95 G-8812A Laudate, Saddle-stitched, 64 pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 .95
A GREGORIAN CHANT MASTER CLASS
Dr. Theodore Marier, K.C.S.G.
GIA is proud to be the distributor of this timely publication by the legendary Dr. Theodore Marier, world-renowned scholar, composer, and teacher of the Solesmes method of Gregorian chant. This is a beautiful, elegant edition that includes a textbook and CD outlining ten fundamental points of style distilled by Marier from his teaching experience and explained in his own voice.
These ten instructions are accompanied by supplementary explanations and sung examples. Together, the book and companion CD offer a unique method of instruction designed for choir directors, teachers, and individual students, making it possible for anyone to be initiated into the art of the chant.
G-7360 Spiral-bound, 82 pages with CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $38 .00
A GREGORIAN CHANT HANDBOOK
William Tortolano
A Gregorian Chant Handbook is the ideal resource for pastoral musicians who want to incorporate chant into parish worship.
It is intended to teach musicians how to read chant (square note) notation and to provide an understanding of phrasing, interpretation, style, modes, psalmody, and the art of conducting chant. This book also contains information on the structure of the Mass, Latin diction and pronunciation, a selection of practical repertoire in Latin and English, and a brief list of bibliographical resources.
