A chant instruction program for children
Materials:
Instructor’s Guide (Order)
Children’s Workbook (Order)
(available below for download and also on CD)
Wilko Brouwers, a chant master in the Netherlands, has successfully dealt with the need for modern materials to raise children’s choirs, and put together this program based on a lifetime of learning and experience. The result is nothing short of brilliant. It includes a workbook and a teachers manual. The program is simple, short, and focused mainly on having the kids sing chant, one step at a time.
Maestro Brouwers worked with translator and musician Arlene Oost-Zinner to produce a translation from Dutch to English. This was a harder task than it might first appear because music and text are inseparable. But after much back and forth, a stable English version emerged. The title is Words with Wings.
At last now parishes will have a place to begin, a method for getting started, a goal in mind, and materials that pull all of this together. This is more than a work of cultural reconstruction, though it is that. This is about the future of art in the liturgy, which is to say, the future of art and faith. It has to begin with the young if it is going to really take root in Catholic life.
But the usefulness goes beyond the Catholic parish. Since the ancient world, people have understood that music is an essential part of education. This simple and clear program of 20 lessons allows this wisdom to enjoy a new life within any educational context.
Instructor Book, 69 pages, Perfect paperback
Audio Library
The complete audio library, a companion for the book, is beautifully sung by choristers of the Madeleine Choir School in Salt Lake City, under the guidance of the School’s music director Melanie Malinka. Here are some samples:
11: Litany of the Saints (Kyriale Simplex n. 39)
25: Puer natus in Bethlehem (verses 1-5)
53: Alleluia, haec dies quam fecit Dominus
94: Veni sancte spiritus
Download the practice tracks
The Audio Library is available for download as a zip file, or you can play the tracks individually through this page.
Complete audio tracks for “Words with Wings”
01: Virgo Maria, non est tibi similis
02: Come, let us ring out our joy to the Lord
03: Come, let us ring out our joy to the Lord
04: Come, let us ring out our joy to the Lord
05: do-re-mi
06: do-re-mi-re
07: re-do-re-mi
08: Sancte Gregori
09: do-ti-la-sol
10: do-la-la-la-la-sol-la
11: Litany of All Saints (Kyriale Simplex n. 39)
12: Alleluia
13: Joseph, fili David
14: Salve radix, salve porta
15: Kyrie eleison
16: Benedictus es
17: Ad te clamamus
18: Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis
19: spoken: Puer natus in Bethlehem
20: Puer natus in Bethlehem
21: spoken: Assumpsit carnem Filius
22: Assumpsit carnem Filius
23: spoken: Per Gabrielem nuntium
24: spoken: Puer natus in Bethlehem (verses 1-5)
25: Puer natus in Bethlehem (verses 1-5)
26: spoken: Deus, canticum novum cantabo tibi
27: Deus, canticum novum cantabo tibi
28: Deus, canticum novum cantabo tibi
29: Deus, canticum novum cantabo tibi
30: Deus, canticum novum cantabo tibi
31: Deus, canticum novum cantabo tibi
32: Deus, canticum novum cantabo tibi
33: spoken: In psalterio decachordo psallam tibi
34: In psalterio decachordo psallam tibi
35: In psalterio decachordo psallam tibi
36: In psalterio decachordo psallam tibi
37: In psalterio decachordo psallam tibi
38: Deus, canticum novum cantabo tibi: in psalterio decachordo psallam tibi
39: “nu”: re-mi-re
40: “nu”: re-mi-re
41: “nu”: re-do-re
42: “nu”: re-do-re
43: “nu”: re-mi
44: “nu”: re-fa
45: “nu”: re-fa-mi-do
46: alleluia
47: alleluia
48: “nu”: do, do, re-mi-re, do
49: “nu”: do, ti, do-re-do, la
50: “nu”: do, ti, la-ti-la, sol
51: spoken: Haec dies quam fecit Dominus
52: Haec dies quam fecit Dominus
53: Alleluia, haec dies quam fecit Dominus
54: spoken: Lapis revolutus est ab ostio monumenti
55: Lapis revolutus est ab ostio monumenti
56: Alleluia, lapis revolutus est ab ostio monumenti
57: spoken: Tulerunt Dominum meum et nescio ubi posuerunt eum
58: Tulerunt Dominum meum et nescio ubi posuerunt eum
59: Alleluia, tulerunt Dominum meum, alleluia, et nescio ubi posuerunt eum
60: Fiat voluntas tua
61: Alleluia
62: Alleluia
63: Alleluia, alleluia
64: spoken: Quem quaeris, mulier, viventem cum mortuis?
65: Alleluia, quem quaeris, mulier, viventem cum mortuis?
66: spoken: Noli flere, Maria: resurrexit Dominus
67: Alleluia, noli flere, Maria, alleluia: resurrexit Dominus, alleluia, alleluia
68: spoken: Dic nobis, Maria, quid vidisti in via
69: Alleluia, dic nobis, Maria, alleluia, quid vidisti in via, alleluia, alleluia
70: “nu”: do-do-re-mi-re
71: “nu”: do-ti-do-re-do
72: “nu”: do-ti-la
73: Fiat voluntas tua
74: spoken: Angelicos testes, sudarium et vestes
75: Angelicos testes, sudarium et vestes
76: Alleluia, angelicos testes, alleluia, sudarium et vestes, alleluia, alleluia
77: spoken: Surrexit Christus spes mea; praecedit suos in Galilaeam
78: Surrexit Christus spes mea; praecedit suos in Galilaeam
79: Alleluia, surrexit Christus spes mea, alleluia; praecedit suos in Galilaeam, alleluia, alleluia
80: spoken: Surrexit de sepulcro qui pro nobis pependit in ligno
81: Surrexit de sepulcro qui pro nobis pependit in ligno
82: Alleluia, surrexit de sepulcro, alleluia, qui pro nobis pependit in ligno, alleluia, alleluia
83: Alleluia (do, ti, la, sol)
84: Alleluia (la, ti, do, re)
85: Alleluia
86: Regina caeli, laetare
87: Spoken and sung: Veni sancte spiritus
88: Reple tuorum corda fidelium
89: Et tui amoris
90: In eis ignem accende
91: Veni sancte Spiritus
92: Qui per diversitatem linguarum cunctarum
93: Gentes in unitate fidei congregasti
94: Veni sancte spiritus