Hello, 2013/6/21 Herman Viaene <[email protected]> > 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. >
in my opinion, if you want to sing gregorian chant with people used to sing from standard musical scores, you have to try to get rid of the connection to standard notation as much as it is possible. Singing psalms is the very basic when singing gregorian chant. Everyone can learn it quite easily without notes at all (just mark importent sylables in the lyrics for them). It is much easier to learn them how to sing it properly this way. It can be disturbing for them at the beginning, but you will achieve much better results than with full scores. Try to sing a psalm with them every rehearsal for 10 minutes, the same Tone. When they are used to it, change the psalm (lyrics)... later change the Tone. If you proceed like this, I promise you succes. :) With best Wishes -- Marek Klein http://gregoriana.sk Graduale Project <http://gregoriana.sk/graduale/>
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