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Booking Form
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Abbey of Santa Cecilia
ROME
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I am interested in attending the
2013-2014 course for the following reasons:
" C A N TA N T I B U S
ORGANIS"
LITURGICAL YE AR 2 013-2 014
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My community's expectations are:
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RESIDENTIAL COURSE IN
LITURGICAL SPIRITUALITY AND
GREGORIAN CHANT
UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF AISCGre
International Association for the Study of Gregorian Chant
(Italy)
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Monastero delle Benedettine di S. Cecilia
p. zza S. Cecilia, 22 - 00153 Roma
I am delighted about this initiative, which will, I hope, enable
those taking part to come to know, appreciate and pass on to others the
Church's heritage of Gregorian chant. The chant has the power to help
many in our own day to lift up their voices in praise of the Lord.
website: www.benedettinesantacecilia.it
email: [email protected]
Cardinal Agostino Vallini,
Vicar General for the Diocese of Rome
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The "Cantantibus Organis" music school was
founded to provide training in ars celebrandi within a
monastic setting. The residential course is designed for
monks and nuns holding, or preparing to hold, the position of cantor/chantress, choir director or organist
within their own monastery. Anyone else interested in
making liturgical music an important part of his/her spiritual life may apply to attend.
The approach is twofold, combining training in music
with spiritual and theological studies. Monks are welcome to stay either at the Abbey of St Paul's outside
the walls or at Santa Cecilia. Nuns are offered hospitality at Santa Cecilia.
The next residential course will open on the first
Sunday of Advent, 1 December 2013, extend over the
complete liturgical year, and conclude on the solemnity
of Christ the King, 23 November 2014. It will be preceded by an intensive language course, beginning on 10
September 2013, for applicants who are not Italian.
There will be an entrance test for first-time applicants.
The residential course lasts a year. Those needing to
consolidate their studies are welcome to stay for a
second year.
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Programme of studies
Voice training
Music theory
Piano
Organ
Gregorian chant, practical sessions
Gregorian semiology
Accompaniment of the chant
Polyphony
Liturgy and Liturgical Spirituality
Theology and Spirituality of the Psalms
Music and Liturgy
Latin language
Choral Direction
A third-year programme, agreed with the tutors
concerned, is offered for anyone wishing to specialize in
a subject. On completion of studies, a certificate of
attendance will be issued.
Our monasteries should always guard and cherish Gregorian
chant as part of their spiritual heritage. I am sure that the
Cantantibus Organis music school will help to make it more widely
known and ever better sung.
Applications to attend the course should be submitted
by 15 August 2013.
Notker Wolf OSB
Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Order