The Church Music Association of America presents its Winter Chant Intensive January 7–11 at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Macon, Georgia. Participants will learn or review how to read and fully navigate all aspects of traditional Gregorian notation (square notes). The course will also address correct Latin pronunciation, the eight Church modes, Psalm tones and their applications, questions concerning the rhythm of plainsong, and more.
The course will be offered in two sections: chant for men, taught by David J. Hughes; and chant for women, with instructor Arlene Oost-Zinner. Classes will begin on Monday afternoon, January 7, and conclude with an 11 am chanted Mass in the Ordinary Form on Friday, January 11.
Arlene Oost-Zinner is the director of the St. Cecilia Schola at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Auburn, Alabama, composer of the Parish Book of Psalms (CMAA, 2012), editor of Words with Wings (CMAA, 2012), and currently serves as director of programs for the Church Music Association of America.
David J. Hughes is organist and choirmaster at St. Mary Church in Norwalk, Connecticut, where he directs a professional choir for a weekly Solemn Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite (Missal of 1962), a volunteer choir for the Latin Mass according to the Roman Missal of 2002, and several children’s choirs. He is director of music for the annual Roman Forum Summer Symposium at Lake Garda in the north of Italy.
For information: http://musica sacra.com/winter-chant-intensive-2013/.
