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Classes in chant and the famed Ward method will be offered by the International Centre for Ward Method Studies at the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music at the Catholic University of America. Classes run from June 25 to July 13, 2007, and can be taken for credit or non-credit. Offered on a rotational basis, this summer’s lineup includes:
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WARD METHOD – COURSE I
MTWRF 9:30am – 12:30 p.m.
MUS 543 : 3 credits; Tuition : $2,100
SMUS 543 : Non-credit workshop; Tuition : $500
Instructor : Nancy Fazio, M.F.A.Lower School music teacher, Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, Bethesda, MD
Prerequisite: ability to sing on pitch.

WARD METHOD – COURSE II
MTWRF 1:30 – 4:30 p.m.
MUS 544 : 3 credits; Tuition : $ 2,100
SMUS 544 : Non-credit workshop; Tuition : $500
Instructor : Amy Zuberbueler, M.Mus.Ed. Director, Ward Centre, San Antonio, Texas
Prerequisite : successful completion of MUS 543 and consent of instructor/director; experience in teaching Ward I strongly recommended.

WARD METHOD – COURSE IV:
GREGORIAN CHANT PRACTICUM I
MTWRF 9:30am-12:30pm
MUS 547 : 3 credits; Tuition : $2,100
SMUS 547 : Non-credit workshop; Tuition : $500
Instructor : Scott Turkington, organist/choirmaster at St John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, Stamford, Conn..

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We are so pleased to offer Music Third Year, by Justine Ward, as a free download and also in print. This completes the collection of classic Ward editions, the series based on the method that trained several generations of singers based on the Solesmes approach to chant. Justine Ward turned this into the foundation of a complete music education.

Music Third Year explores more complicated scales and introduces polyphonic singing with excerpts from the masters.

See the CMAA Shop for all titles in this series.

The English translation of the Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum Caritatis has been revised. The initial translation, critiqued at Fr. Zuhlsdorf’s blog, said in paragraph 62 that international liturgies “could be” in Latin. The revised translation: “it is fitting that such liturgies be celebrated in Latin” – a revision that comes closer to reflecting the Latin text.

Here is the 1970 Missal edition of the Exsultet, prepared by Richard Rice.

Gregorian Chant for Church and School, by Sister Mary Antonine Goodchild.

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What a wonderful find this is: an ideal textbook on chant for junior high, high school, or really any age. It is mercifully free of verbiage or exaggerated detail. It is short and super clear on all aspects of learning to chant (notes, rhythm, Latin, style), and it contains a vast amount of the basic repertoire, in neumes and with English translations. It even has study questions!

Many of us have wish that such a book would be written. It took Fr. Samuel Weber to point out that such a book already exists, and now it is in print again. As the title says, it is the perfect text for Church and school. It came out in 1944 but it isn’t in the slightest bit dated. This is priced for mass distribution.