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      ●  are curious about the history, forms, and uses of chant; 

      ●  want to understand plainchant better in order to lead or form a chant choir;

      ●  sing early polyphony regularly and need to understand its context better;

      ●  want to explore the ensemble-building power of unison singing.

Join Susan Hellauer for an all new Chant Camp focusing on the medieval Sequence, and learn familiar works like the Dies irae of the Requiem Mass, as well as lost gems of medieval poetry and music from England, Ireland, Paris, Spain, and Germany that are only preserved and performed as art music by groups like Anonymous 4 and Sequentia.

Sequences (part of the Proper of the Mass since the ninth century) were the prime creative outlet for poet-composers in the High Middle Ages, and thousands of them were composed.  Among them are a handful of enduring masterpieces still sung today, like the Dies irae of the Requiem Mass and Victimae paschali laudes for Easter.  Where are the rest of them?  Swept away in the Counter-Reformation liturgical housecleaning of the Council of Trent, in the latter half of the Sixteenth century.

This Chant Camp will focus on a half dozen of the most beautiful sequences ever written, including Dies irae and Victimae paschali laudes, as well as sequences now lost to the liturgy.  Once you've heard, learned, and sung these ancient masterpieces of medieval plainchant, you'll probably be inclined to write a letter to the Vatican, demanding their immediate reinstatement.

Registration opens at 9:30 A.M.  Session 1: 10:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.  Session 2: 1:30 P.M.-4:00 P.M.

               COST: $50    Register and send payment now. Places are limited.

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