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
W 4/30 class
No High Mass 5/1 (St. Joseph the Workman) this year
F 5/2 6:00 p.m. Litany & Benediction; 6:30 p.m. Requiem Mass; no warm-up beforehand
Sa 5/3 12:30 p.m. Colarelli-Youngblood wedding at Mater
Su 5/4 Easter+II; 9:00 Andy
W 5/7 class
*F 5/9 4:00 p.m. Rijke-Washburn wedding at Mater - mixed choir only
Su 5/11 Easter+III; 9:00 Andy
W 5/14 class
*Sa 5/17 10:00 a.m. Confirmation & First Communion at St. Edward's
Su 5/18 Easter+IV; 9:00 treble schola
W 5/21 class
5/24 wedding will be Low Mass without music
Su 5/25 Easter+V; 9:00 Andy
W 5/28 class
*Th 5/29 6:30 p.m. Ascension at St. Edward's
Su 6/1 Sun. after Ascension; 9:00 Andy
W 6/4 class
F 6/6 6:00 p.m. Litany & Benediction; 6:30 p.m. Sacred Heart votive Mass; no warm-up beforehand
Su 6/8 Pentecost; 9:00 Logan
W 6/11 class
Su 6/15 Trinity Sunday; 9:00 treble schola
W 6/18 class
*Su 6/22 8:30 a.m. Corpus Christi (external solemnity); no additional Chant Mass today
*Tu 6/24 6:30 p.m. Nativity of St. John the Baptist at Mater
W 6/25 final class before break
*F 6/27 6:30 p.m. Sacred Heart at St. Edward's; no warm-up
Su 6/29 Ss. Peter & Paul; 9:00 Andy (Mass of the feast)
*Tu 7/1 6:30 p.m. Precious Blood at Mater
schola break 7/2-7/27
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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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