![]() ![]() Instructional Methods: Lecture with practicum (including introductory solfege exercises) preparation and chanting of selected liturgies. Exploration of repertory of available chants for application to current liturgical practice in light of Second Vatican Council Sacrosanctum Concilium. MUS 547B - Gregorian Chant Schola Career: Graduate Units: 1 creditĬourse Description: Reading, singing and conducting basic Gregorian chants according to the principles of Dom André Mocquereau OSB. The course combines lecture with practicum. Gregorian Chant Schola (MUS 547B) is offered each Spring Semester dependent on enrollment. It is contemplative in that “the beauty and novelty of the Gregorian melody is due to the fact that the chant makes no use, or as little as possible, of the sensory world it passes by way of the senses but it is not to them that it speaks.” Dom André Mocquereau, 1849-1930. It is liturgical in that it is “the official commentary of liturgical texts, authentically given by the Church herself” Dom Joseph Gajard, 1875-1972. It is biblical in that it “clothes the text in a musical garment of ‘noble simplicity’” SC 34, Abbot Jean Prou, 1911-1999. When visiting The Catholic University of America in 1983 for the International Symposium on Gregorian Chant Abbot Jean Prou stated “Gregorian chant is … biblical, liturgical and contemplative.”
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