gregorian chant Archives : Professor Carol

Awakening to Chant

March 1, 2014March 1, 2014 by Professor Carol

A Tribute to Dr. Mary Berry 1917-2008. Sometimes you get lucky. At the beginning of the 1980s while living in Portland Oregon, I saw a notice for a two-day “chant-workshop” directed by Dr. Mary Berry. In musicology courses at the University of North Carolina, I’d … Read more

Introduction to Gregorian Chant

March 7, 2014February 25, 2014 by Reynolds

We begin our Early Sacred Music course with a general discussion of Gregorian Chant. How did the chant arise and become the standard for Christian worship in the Middle Ages? The video below is a supplement to the course and concerns Unit 1. The Early … Read more

And Then There's This . . .

Vince Bielski, When Classical Learning Meets Public Education the Dialogue Isn’t Always Socratic. “Classical education, whose name gained traction in the 1980s to evoke the movement’s focus on liberal arts and the Western canon, is struggling to overcome local political opposition.”

Peter Wood, After College: The Coming Cultural Collapse of Higher Education. “Students graduate with a veneer of knowledge rather than a core. An increasingly obsolescent institution has wedded itself to an increasingly noisome cultural stance.”

Anthony Esolen, Heap Songs Upon Their Heads. “We are the most beauty-starved people, I am persuaded, who have ever trod the earth.”

Gregory Wolfe, The Wound of Beauty. “The time has come to bring beauty back, to give it the glass slipper and invite it to the prom.”