Gregorian chant has lain at the heart of church music for centuries. This practical workshop led by Father Guy Nicholls offers a rare opportunity to learn how to read the notation and perform the psalms in free rhythm. Explore the origins and practise of the daily offices. Delve into the enormous repertoire and discover how the daily music changes with the events in the christian year. All singers welcome.

Father Guy Nicholls is a priest of the Birmingham Oratory and the Founder and Director of the John Henry Newman Institute of Liturgical Music. His current projects include the production and publication of the Graduale Parvum, of which the first volume of Introits was published in April 2018, consisting of simple Gregorian chants of the Propers of the Roman Missal and Gradual in Latin and English for parish choirs and congregations to sing.

Listen to the divine offices of Vespers and Compline being sung in the gallery at 6pm and 8pm.

Duration: 90 mins

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