| Date: 05 March 2022 – 09 July 2022 | Location: Live stream |
FREE GREGORIAN CHANT COURSE for all choirs associated with FEDERCORI!!
Another great opportunity put in place by the Federation for the benefit of all members.
A training proposal of absolute artistic value, conducted by Don Michele Faustino Loda, aimed at those who want to approach Gregorian Chant following a gradual and complete path.
The course will be held in live streaming, on a weekly basis, starting from 05 March 2022.
The educational path includes 20 online lessons and 2 face-to-face meetings, for the verification tests, which will be held in Rome.
To register fill out the following form: https://form.jotform.com/220334227334345
COURSE TOPICS:
– Identity of liturgical monody
– Brief history of Gregorian chant
– Outline of liturgy
– Singing books
– The text, the oratory, the music.
– Analysis of a form
– Square graphs
– Outline of mode 1
– Outline of mode 2 – Oktoechos
– Neumi 1
– Neumi 2
– Solo and choral vocality
– Trend, rhythm, logic.
– Identity and structure of the Office
– Simple Psalm Hymns and Tones 1
– Simple psalm tones 2
– Analysis of the structure of the Ordinarium Missae
– Notes on the forms of the songs of the Proprium Missae
– Exercises, practices and listening
It will be useful to own the following books:
GRADUAL SIMPLEX
LIBER HYMANRIUS
VESPERALE ROMANUM
DON MICHELE FAUSTINO PRAISES
he obtained at the Pontifical Lateran University (Vatican City) the Baccalaureate in Sacred Theology and subsequently the Licentiate in Fundamental Theology with honors.
Graduated summa laude in Gregorian Chant at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music (Vatican City) with Franz Karl Praβl, he obtained the Master’s Degree in Prepolyphony at the State Conservatory of Music G. Verdi” of Turin (Italy) under the guidance of Fulvio Rampi, deserving praise and honorable mention.
Awarded with various civil and ecclesiastical merits, since 2017 he has been a Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.
He is currently Head and Director of the Joint Choir of the Military Ordinariate for Italy and since 2019 Maestro di Cappella del Pantheon di Roma with appointment ad quinquennium.
