THE XXII ANNUAL SACRED MUSIC COLLOQUIUM was a success. The purpose was to teach chant and Catholic sacred music. This year it was held in Salt Lake City, Utah on June 25-July 1.
It you missed the Colloquium most of the music is available for free:
- The Colloquium Music Packet (low-res version; copyrighted Mass setting deleted)
- The Colloquium Music Packet (high-res version; copyrighted Mass setting deleted)
- Listen to practice tracks for Colloquium polyphony here.
- ColloquiumXXII_repertoire
There were many highlights including:
- Extensive training in Gregorian chant under a world-class faculty, with choices of a chant class for beginners, and intermediate and and advanced chant classes;
- Morning and afternoon sessions all week with lectures and workshops with the best of the best thinkers and doers in the world of Catholic music;
- Optional choral experience with one of four large choirs singing sacred music of the masters such as Palestrina, Vierne, Bruckner, Victoria, Byrd, Tallis, Josquin, and many others;
- Daily liturgies with careful attention to officially prescribed musical settings;
- Experience in singing or just listening to Mass settings, motets, chants, and responses;
- Residency in a full service hotel;
- Two gala dinners with top lecturers and events;
- Training in vocal production and technique;
- Conducting practicum;
- Training for Priests in the sung Mass;
- Pedagogy demonstrations;
- Composers’ Forum;
- Seminars on parish music management, integrating sung parts of the liturgy, polyphonic repertoire for beginning and more established choirs;
- All music, including prepared packets of chant and polyphony, as part of registration.
: - SHARED FROM MUSICASACRA.COM
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