The Liber Usualis gives the text for the lessons with a cross reference to the tune, which is a bit tricky to co ordinate when you come to sing it.
Typing a reading up with the tune used to be a tedious chore, but now we have the GABC Transcription Tool! You too can typeset chant without having to learn to program.
First, install Google Chrome. Next open up the webstore and search for GABC. Install the GABC Transcription Tool and watch this video.
This example uses the seventh lesson for Matins for the Office of the Dead.
You asked for more about singing the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary so I have decided to make a course on Udemy!
Here is my special affiliate-ish link :
https://www.udemy.com/course/sing-officium-parvum-bmv/?referralCode=7C9068C18692B9588F76
Quick recording, running through my booklet.
Officium Parvum Beatae Mariae Virginis
Grab your own copy in pdf here:
https://veromary.gitlab.io/littleOffice/
I think I called it Morning and Evening Prayer before, but it's Prime and Compline, with extra Canticles for those who like that sort of thing. Keep bugging me to make proper booklets.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eASGigpne1Q
This is a pilot sort of episode.
I'm planning a weekly zoom class comprised of a short run through of a piece of chant followed by an online quiz. We have used Kahoot in the past, but Blooket seems to have advantages, so that's what we're going with now.
Here's the link to the Quiz: click "Host" to play with friends or "Solo" to practice by yourself:
https://dashboard.blooket.com/set/662af723d8b3c822e679596c
More info on the Regina Caeli at:
https://newbookoldhymns.brandt.id.au/hymns/reginacaeli.html
Next week we're planning to run through Veni Sancte Spiritus:
https://newbookoldhymns.brandt.id.au/hymns/venisancte.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoHpx2aPAcY
Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary sung in Latin.
Using the second tune in the Liber Usualis.
From page 64 of A New Book of Old Hymns - a great little book full of my favourite Gregorian Chant and other Sacred Music.
http://www.brandt.id.au/newbookoldhymns/
Working on didactic materials for all the pieces in the book - vocabulary, music and historical bits and pieces.
Another related project is my work on the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary which is now a course on Udemy.
Here is my special affiliate-ish link :
https://www.udemy.com/course/sing-officium-parvum-bmv/?referralCode=7C9068C18692B9588F76
Picture credits:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The-Litany-of-The-Blessed-Virgin-Mary.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nova_Rise_Ms_10.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sano_di_Pietro._Madonna_of_Mercy.1440s_Private_coll..jpg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZXc3JtNAwk
First impressions of the Gregorian Chant Master Course from the Gregorian Chant Academy.3
https://www.gregorianchantacademy.com/courses
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Rh_p1AXRw
Day 73 of #100daysofchant
The third installment in the simple sing-through the Little Office of the Immaculate Conception.
More info : littleoffice.brandt.id.au
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfHIrw_Aajc
Someone wanted to know which version we knew, so here it is.
Great little Advent hymn. Or Christmas. Or just sing it because it's pretty.
It's transposed down a little because we are still recovering from colds.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zqJf15RomI
Each year I typeset the Epiphany Proclamation. I've been doing this since 2003. I don't usually sing it, but seemed like a good idea to give it a go.
This is sort of a very old fashioned way for people to get the official liturgical year dates each year. Some feasts, like Christmas, have fixed dates, while some feasts depend on the date for Easter which has a really interesting history of how the dates are determined. Most of the feasts here can be extrapolated from that Easter date with the exception of the First Sunday of Advent which is four Sundays before 25 December.
You can download this pdf and every other pdf since 2003 here on my webpage:
https://www.brandt.id.au/music/epiphany.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztrqW1GkMqA
Here's the page with the worksheet and picture:
https://kidschant.com/2020/10/20th-sunday-after-pentecost/
I run through the picture from Images of the Evangelical Gospels by Jeronimo Nadal available from Lulu here:
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/devoted-friends-of-god/images-of-the-evangelical-gospels/paperback/product-1mk28zk5.html
IN illo témpore: Erat quidam régulus, cujus fílius infirmabátur Caphárnaum. Hic cum audísset, quia Jesus adveníret a Judæa in Galilæam, ábiit ad eum: et rogábat eum ut descénderet et sanáret fílium ejus: incipiébat enim mori. Dixit ergo Jesus ad eum: Nisi signa, et prodígia vidéritis, non créditis. Dicit ad eum régulus: Dómine, descénde priúsquam moriátur fílius meus. Dicit ei Jesus: Vade fílius tuus vivit. Crédidit homo sermóni, quem dixit ei Jesus, et ibat. Jam autem eo descendéntem, servi occurrérunt eí, et nuntiavérunt dicéntes, quia fílius ejus víveret. Interrogábat ergo horam ab eis, in qua mélius habúerit. Et dixérunt ei: Quia heri hora séptima reliquit eum febris. Cognóvit ergo pater, quia illa hora erat, in qua dixit ei Jesus: Fílius tuus vivit: et crédidit ipse, et domus ejus tota.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQXHlYL0q8A
Thanks to Junior Camera-person helping make this video.
Two usb midi keyboards
One Raspberry Pi 3
A Screen, a Qwerty Keyboard, a mouse
Aeolus - I've added it to my GrandOrgue playlist, because I think it's relevant, although I'm not using GrandOrgue here.
Bench and pedalboard from a Lowrey Promenade Electronic Organ.
Music: first piece from Oreste Ravanello's Sei Pezzetti Facili per Organo ed Armonio (Op 67 N1)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzU2Ngjxk6A