On 20/06/13 20:50, Boris Maire wrote:
Dear all,
I do not want to hurt anyone.
My filling is that singing psalms is very simple from the melody point
of view. We should not need any material to learn the tones.
I do not understand people who cannot sing a psalm in their own language.
In my understanding, the difficult part comes from the latin accent
and the need to calculate where to change the melody. This needs
training and practicing.
That's why I think it is a better way to give a "score" with only the
text and old neume notation just to indicate where is the change in
the melody and sort of change : going up or down.
Singers will no more have to look up and down from the text because
melody won't be written on 4 lines above it but only on 1 or 2.
My experience is that many singers cannot read music.
Well, my experience - but it is mine, and I cannot extrapolate - is that
the people I get interested in singing gregorian are all people that had
some musical education, and therefore are used at singing from full
scores. Having to look for symbols in the text where to bend the melodic
line is very disturbing for them.
The big difference between my situation and that of some - or a lot? -
of the correspondents in this group, is that we form a choir, which
rehearses once a week, and performs at 5 - to 10 occasions a year.
Herman Viaene
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Veel mensen danken hun goed geweten aan hun slecht geheugen. (G. Bomans)
Lots of people owe their good conscience to their bad memory (G. Bomans)
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