The flyer for our ‘Chant 101′ session has gone out confirming that once again our good friends at Orange Street Music are kindly allowing us to use their venue. If you are interested in coming please let us know at the usual email address.

Saturday 18^th October 2008

10.00-12.00 in Orange Street Music Venue

Interested in Gregorian Chant?

Haven’t a clue about neumes, four lines, where ‘doh’ is?

This session is for you! We will look at the absolute basics

• What are those square notes?
• What key is it in?
• Basics of reading the music - in which order are the notes sung?
• Some common ‘shorthand’ used in printed copies
• Practice some simple melodies which we will use in the November workshop

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As advertised earlier this month we were in Canterbury Cathedral Archive last Saturday for an incredibly interesting talk by Toby Huitson on the reconstruction of musical fragments from the archives.

We were also lucky enough to have Andrew Park, a modern day scribe on hand to visually capture proceedings so if you didn’t make it along to the talk this is what you missed!

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The morning will begin with a talk by Toby Huitson who has worked in the Archives and has reconstructed whole pieces of music from mediaeval fragments. He will describe the music fragments he used and discuss their origin and history leading to their discovery as well as the process of reconstructing the music and text. After the talk, we will have a go at singing through one of the antiphons that Toby has reconstructed. The morning will end with refreshments and a chance to look round some interesting items on display. Staff from the Archives will be present to discuss the items and give any information about the collections and resources of the Cathedral Library and Archives.

£8 for CGMS members, £12 non-members: for further details or to book a place email us at contact@gregoriansociety.org.

Please note: parking within the cathedral grounds is not available except for pre-booked disabled badge holders.

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