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. So not giving them a score is not a problem : the old neumes give them what they need to sing a psalm, where to change and if the voice is up or down. Instructional materials are needed for stand alone people or for other gregorian song, like for the Mass. Regards, Boris Le 20 juin 2013 à 10:20, Richard Chonak <r...@gabrielmass.com> a écrit : > On 06/20/2013 03:45 AM, Boris Maire wrote: >> the tone of a psalm should be well-known by the singers, and then just >> indicating by those old signs when/where is the flex could perhaps make >> lighter scores. > > "should be well-known"? > > If that were true, then there would be no need to make instructional > materials for singers lacking experience in chant. > > --RC > > _______________________________________________ > Gregorio-users mailing list > Gregorio-users@gna.org > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users
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