"He who sings well prays twice." (St. Augustine of Hippo) +++ "Qui cantat precatur ter." (Gregorius Spurius)

LINKS OF INTEREST

GENERAL PAGE ABOUT CHANT, PSALM TONES, ETC.
https://sites.google.com/site/parishchant/home
Very helpful.

HOW TO READ AND SING GREGORIAN CHANT
http://www.ccwatershed.org/Gregorian/
Corpus Christi Watershed hosts a wealth of liturgical music materials and aids. This page has a series of short lessons and summaries.

HOW TO PRONOUNCE ECCLESIASTICAL LATIN
http://www.ccwatershed.org/Gregorian/09/
This is actually Lesson 9 in the above series. It's basically a repository of a number of different PDF guide sheets.

SHORTER "ONE-SHEET" GUIDES TO GREGORIAN CHANT AND PRONOUNCING LATIN
Chant: http://www.ccwatershed.org/media/pdfs/12/07/05/14-58-44_0.pdf
Pronunuciation: http://www.ccwatershed.org/media/pdfs/12/07/05/19-30-36_0.pdf

SQUARE NOTE: GREGORIAN CHANT FOR THE MASSES (Smartphone app)
https://squarenote.co/
From the web page: "Square Note puts a huge library of Gregorian Chant scores—over 600 unique chants and counting—right at your fingertips. Always wanted to learn how to read square note notation? Always wondered how to find all the amazing Gregorian Chants of the Catholic Church? Square Note brings the ancient music of the Church to your mobile devices, ready for you to utilize in your schola, your choir, or your home." Available for both Android and Apple.

LEARN GREGORIAN CHANT
http://www.fsspolgs.org/liturgical3.html
Hosted by the seminary for the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP), Our Lady of Guadalupe in Denton, Nebraska. Explanation and exercises, with the opportunity to "sing with the seminarians."

BREVIARY HYMNS
http://kpshaw.blogspot.com/2013/05/latin.html
This has many of the hymns of the Roman breviary, both traditional and modern (this specific link takes you to the traditional Latin hymns index). This is where I get a lot of the hymns we've been using.

ORGAN ACCOMPANIMENT FOR HYMNS
http://www.ccwatershed.org/nova/
Page-by-page links to PDFs of the Novum Organum Harmonium, a wealth of organ harmonizations in modern notation, with words, which means those uncomfortable with chant notation have a crutch as well.

CREATING GREGORIAN CHANT NOTATION
https://bbloomf.github.io/jgabc/propers.html
Gregorio is a wonderful online tool for creating Gregorian Chant notation using the GABC encoding system. It is the source of the weekly sheets we use, as well as some of the hymns where I could find no suitable pdf download. Information and documentation can be found here: http://gregoriochant.org/dokuwiki/doku.php#running_gregorio_on-line. There is an app for the Google Chrome Browser as well, available through the App Store.

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