Chant Café

Richard Rice’s Simple Choral Gradual, an anthology of choral propers from the 1975 ICEL Roman Missal, is now available in braille notation for directors, accompanists and choir members who need their music in braille.

Thanks to Teresa Haifley for providing the CMAA with these transcriptions. If you have any questions about the project, feel free to contact her by e-mail at username dthaifley, at the domain iowatelecom.net . And many thanks to Richard Chonak, webmaster at Musica Sacra, for seeing this project through.

As of March 2013, the CMAA has files for Lent and Holy Week. More material will be added as proofreading and correcting are completed.

I’ve got another class in reading Gregorian notation scheduled for next week – Tuesday, March 19, at 8:00pm CST. Join me!

Among the comments so far:

“This was/is a fabulous course. Thank you!”

“I have a little Gregorian chant app that I couldn’t make head nor tail of until your course. So, this was immensely helpful.”

Last week’s class went really well. Another sold out one happening tonight. Teaching online has its challenges..there is certainly a learning curve for all of us as we learn the software. It is fun to take advantage of the tools that are available…and make things instructive, interactive, and fun. How amazing is it that we find ourselves in an age when this is possible. Live instruction delivered to your own office or home…no sloshing through rain storms or spending money on gas!