SCHOLA SCHEDULE AND LITURGICAL NOTES
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Choir Rules & Information - includes attendance policy
Sunday 11:00 a.m. Mass and First Friday 6:30 p.m. Mass at St. Edward the Confessor unless noted otherwise
warm-up in the old rectory (or downstairs in the hall at Mater) 20 minutes before Mass unless noted otherwise (except weddings)
class Wednesday 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. at Mater Misericordiae unless noted otherwise
*Masses or other services besides Sunday 11:00 or First Friday at St. Edward’s
Tentative schedule of Sung Masses and weddings for 2025
Music Lists for High Masses (page not indexed on this site’s navigation menus but linked on parish website and may be shared publicly)
ADOT Weekend Freeway Travel Advisory - usually updated Thursday or Friday
schola break 7/2-7/28
Tu 7/29 6:30–8:00 p.m. class
F 8/1 6:00 p.m. Litany and Benediction; 6:30 Votive Mass of the Sacred Heart at St. Edward; no warm-up
Su 8/3 Pentecost+VIII; 9:00 Andy
Tu 8/5 class
Su 8/10 Pentecost+IX; 9:00 Andy
Tu 8/12 class
*F 8/15 6:30 p.m. Assumption at St. Edward's
Su 8/17 Pentecost+X; 9:00 treble schola
Tu 8/19 class
*F 8/22 6:30 p.m. Immaculate Heart at Mater
Su 8/24 Pentecost+XI; 9:00 Andy
Tu 8/26 class
Su 8/31 Pentecost+XII; 9:00 Andy
Tu 9/2 class
F 9/5 6:00 p.m. Litany and Benediction; 6:30 Votive Mass of the Sacred Heart at St. Edward; no warm-up
Su 9/7 Pentecost+XIII; 9:00 Andy
Tu 9/9 class
Su 9/14 Holy Cross; 9:00 Andy - Mass of the feast day
Tu 9/16 class
Su 9/21 Pentecost+XV; 9:00 treble schola
Tu 9/23 class
Su 9/28 Pentecost+XVI; 9:00 Andy
Tu 9/30 class
F 10/3 evening Mass at St. Edward's will be Low today
Sa 10/4 3:30 Carreon-Miller wedding at Mater
Su 10/5 Our Lady of the Rosary (external solemnity); 9:00 Andy - Pentecost+XVII
Tu 10/7 class
Su 10/12 Pentecost+XVIII; 9:00 Andy
There will not be a High Mass for the feast or external solemnity of St. Edward this year.
Tu 10/14 class
Sa 10/18 3:30 LeBeau-Audino wedding at Mater
Su 10/19 Pentecost+XIX; 9:00 treble schola
Tu 10/21 class
Su 10/26 10:45 a.m. Christ the King; Benediction after Mass; 9:00 Andy - Mass of the feast
Tu 10/28 class
*Sa 11/1 3:00 p.m. (tentative) All Saints at St Edward's - sign-out form will be added when finalized
Su 11/2 Pentecost+XXI; 9:00 Andy
*M 11/3 6:30 p.m. All Souls (transferred) at Mater Misericordiae
Tu 11/4 class
F 11/7 3:30 wedding at Mater; evening Mass at St. Edward's will be Low today
Su 11/9 Pentecost+XXII
Sa 11/15 11:30 a.m. Schmidt-O'Hara wedding at Mater
Sa 11/22 3:30 Davis-Mason wedding at Mater
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Self-study playlist for new schola members - includes First Fridays, funerals, weddings, Credo de Archangelis
Congregational chant recordings
Required reading:
Fundamentals of Gregorian Chant according to the Solesmes Method (two pages)
Rudiments of Gregorian Chant in proportional rhythm (one additional page)
See also my Introduction to Mensuralism video
Recommended reading:
Excerpt (pp. 4–14 of the full PDF) from Gregorian Chant according to the Manuscripts by Dom Gregory Murray, OSB
“The Rhythm of Gregorian Chant” (25 pages) from Rhythm, Meter and Tempo in Gregorian Chant by Dr. Jan van Biezen (summary here); the examples in square notation are available here
Further reading:
“Gregorian Rhythm in the Gregorian Centuries: The Literary Evidence” by Dom Gregory Murray, OSB
Gregorian Chant: A History of the Controversy Concerning Its Rhythm by John Rayburn
Rhythmic Proportions in Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Chant by Fr. Jan Vollaerts, SJ
Chant resources:
Table of Neumes - including Metz, St. Gall, Vatican, neography, and modern notations with a summary of principal differences between proportional rhythm and the Solesmes method
Chant PDFs from the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest
see also the home page
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