A zoom course in Gregorian chant:
AERCO - Accendi la voce - fbuk

Presentiamo tutti i corsi della 𝐒𝐂𝐔𝐎𝐋𝐀 𝐃𝐈 𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐎 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐎 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏-𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐:

𝗦𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗫 𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗧: 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅
for English speakers
docente: Luca Buzzavi
tutor: Barbara Bolognese

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10 hours, 5 webinars, on Zoom
Timetable:
October: 10-24
November: 13-20-27

From 8 PM to 10 PM Rome time (GMT 1)

Course Aims
To provide the necessary knowledge and tools to access our specific exercise sessions and our more advanced courses

Learning framework
Chants from the Graduale Simplex and the Hartker antiphonary will be analyzed throughout the course

Metodology
The students will be introduced to the first steps in the study of Gregorian Chant with the aid of schematic slides, supporting pictures, listening sessions on specific features and examples described in class and suggested readings.

Topics and exercise sessions
Our proposed learning path will follow these steps:

1- Basics on tetragrams and Vatican (square) notation
• Exercise session: analysis of chants in square notation

2- Forms and styles of Gregorian chant
• Exercise session: stylistic analysis of selected chants in the Gregorian repertory

3- Structure of the two main adiastematic notations (Gallican and Messine): from monosonic to trisonic neumes. An introduction to neums with specific phrasing values (i.e. those containing an oriscus or a quilisma) and to the phenomenon of liquescence. Basics on tones and modes.
• Exercise session: some easy exercises on “backwards semiology” and on how to search the main adiastematic manuscripts

4- The texts of Gregorian chant
• Exercise session: the students will learn how to identify the different types of textual interventions and how to search the Antiphonale Missarum Sextuplex

5- Elements of rhetoric within the chant
• rhetorical analysis of selected office antiphons