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 Tuesday 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 all Sung Masses and weddings (spreadsheet)
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
Parish Flocknote Announcements
Tu 8/25 class
Su 8/30 Pentecost+XIV; 9:00 Andy
Tu 9/1 class
F 9/4 6:00 p.m. Litany & Benediction; 6:30 Sacred Heart Votive Mass
Su 9/6 Pentecost+XV; 9:00 Andy
Tu 9/8 class
Su 9/13 Pentecost+XVI; 9:00 Nick
Tu 9/15 class
Su 9/20 Pentecost+XVII; 9:00 Andy
Tu 9/22 class
Su 9/27 Pentecost+XVIII; 9:00 Andy
*Tu 9/29 6:30 p.m. Michaelmas at Mater
F 10/2 6:00 p.m. Litany & Benediction; 6:30 Sacred Heart Votive Mass
Su 10/4 Rosary Sunday; 9:00 Andy - Pentecost+XIX
Tu 10/6 class
Su 10/11 Pentecost+XX; 9:00 Nick
Tu 10/13 class
Su 10/18 St. Edward (external solemnity; 9:00 Andy - Pentecost+XXI
Tu 10/20 class
Su 10/25 10:25 warm-up and 10:45 Mass Christ the King
Tu 10/27 class
*Su 11/1 All Saints special schedule: 11:00 a.m. Chant Mass, 1:00 p.m. High Mass
*Sa 12/12 12:00 midnight Mass at St. Edward's for Our Lady of Guadalupe
additional dates will be added about two months in advance
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Self-study playlist for new schola members - includes First Fridays, funerals, weddings, Credo de Archangelis
Our own audio recordings - rehearsals folder is updated weekly! sort newest first or Z to A
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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