Fantastic!! This is a brilliant and comprehensive introduction to the good singing of Anglican Chant. I had to learn all this by rote and repetition, as a choir boy aged 8, but am now (somewhat older - aged 65!) trying to encourage good technique to our church choir of adults. So I have passed this on to them all, and hope they enjoy it to. Wonderful it is, also to know that Anglican Chant is alive and well in the USA, whereas it is dying a slow and steady death, back here in the Anglican Church's Mother Country! Well done!
This is amazing! The instruction is very clear, teaches terminology and method, and for the very first time I think I’m getting it. Thank you so much for taking the time to explain this!
Thank you very much I listened again and find it very good. When Anglican chant is done well with good voices it sounds wonderful. Thank you and God bless you amen
Thank you very much for this excellent instruction. I shall abide in patience and learn with diligence, and hope always that my voice may rise in beauty to the Lord. God bless you and family amen.
Thank you for this clearly-explained video. Question: what printed edition of Anglican chant do you recommend? I listen to the "Complete Coverdale Psalter" on Spotify. Which book matches those versions of the chanted psalms?
Very informative and helpful. I have a copy of the BCP - it doesn't contain all the various markings, only the asterisks at the half-verse. What other resources would you recommend?
Try googling 'the anglican chant psalter pdf'. The text will be from the 1979 BCP. I've pointed some of the 2019 myself, but I don't know if a pointed psalter has been published yet.
Also try 'The Parish Psalter', re-published in 1989 by the Royal School of Church Music, here in England (ISBN: 0 854020 91 8). That has all the Psalms and Canticles with pointing marks, to show you where you change note, and dots to show where you shift on a three or four syllable word/combination of words, rather than the usual of staying on the first note until the last syllable (all explained in the preface in the book).
Except you should not rush. For example, it is - Glory be to the Father. It is NOT - Glory beto the Father. Also, it is not e - ver shall be. Rather it is ever shall be. Your are not always correct. I can tell you follow modern singing of AC and not in the old artistic poetic manner. I studied will both Eric Routley, James Litton, Sir George Thalben-Ball, Sir George Guest, Michael Nicholas and Sir David Willcocks.
I learned all this in the fifties when I became organist at St. Peter's. I wish we still used the system! ♡
Fantastic!! This is a brilliant and comprehensive introduction to the good singing of Anglican Chant. I had to learn all this by rote and repetition, as a choir boy aged 8, but am now (somewhat older - aged 65!) trying to encourage good technique to our church choir of adults. So I have passed this on to them all, and hope they enjoy it to. Wonderful it is, also to know that Anglican Chant is alive and well in the USA, whereas it is dying a slow and steady death, back here in the Anglican Church's Mother Country! Well done!
I think it is now rare in many parish churches as they don't seem to do many evensongs, but in cathedrals it is still alive and well, thank heavens!
This is amazing! The instruction is very clear, teaches terminology and method, and for the very first time I think I’m getting it. Thank you so much for taking the time to explain this!
Good morning beauty
Thank you for this knowledge, I've been singing but don't know what secret of why I'm singing it the way I do 😂
Nicely explained, though for me as a former UK cathedral chorister, some of the pointing seems rather odd!
Love it. Simple but thorough. I'm excited to jump into chanting the Psalms.
Christopher Hoyt, thank you.
Thanks for the teaching of Anglican chant,am going even me to teach my choristers if my church. In Uganda
Please continue to making a video about this...Here in Indonesia we need it
Thank you, very helpful. Well explained and clearly spoken.
Thank you very much I listened again and find it very good. When Anglican chant is done well with good voices it sounds wonderful. Thank you and God bless you amen
An excellent lesson. Thank you for this.
Thank you very much for this excellent instruction. I shall abide in patience and learn with diligence, and hope always that my voice may rise in beauty to the Lord. God bless you and family amen.
Thank you.
Good morning beauty
Thank you for this clearly-explained video. Question: what printed edition of Anglican chant do you recommend? I listen to the "Complete Coverdale Psalter" on Spotify. Which book matches those versions of the chanted psalms?
Thanking you!
Very well done. Thank you.
Very helpful!! Thank you kindly 🙏🏼
Can you please send me these chant score, please...
Very informative and helpful. I have a copy of the BCP - it doesn't contain all the various markings, only the asterisks at the half-verse. What other resources would you recommend?
Try googling 'the anglican chant psalter pdf'. The text will be from the 1979 BCP. I've pointed some of the 2019 myself, but I don't know if a pointed psalter has been published yet.
Also try 'The Parish Psalter', re-published in 1989 by the Royal School of Church Music, here in England (ISBN: 0 854020 91 8). That has all the Psalms and Canticles with pointing marks, to show you where you change note, and dots to show where you shift on a three or four syllable word/combination of words, rather than the usual of staying on the first note until the last syllable (all explained in the preface in the book).
Which choir is singing?
His choir is the one singing.
Except you should not rush. For example, it is - Glory be to the Father. It is NOT - Glory beto the Father. Also, it is not e - ver shall be. Rather it is ever shall be. Your are not always correct. I can tell you follow modern singing of AC and not in the old artistic poetic manner. I studied will both Eric Routley, James Litton, Sir George Thalben-Ball, Sir George Guest, Michael Nicholas and Sir David Willcocks.
Keep it to yourself
These are big names, particularly Guest. His choir had a way around chant that was inimitable.
So for “ever shall be,” you don't put one note on each syllable? Or do you not chant it to the rhythm?
Thank you!