Topic: Religion / Subject Headings: Gregorian Chants Instruction and Study

Creator:: Gertken, Sister Gemma (1894-1990)
Date Created:: 1941 - 1947
Description:: This is the first workbook in a series written by Sister Gemma Gertken (1894-1990) to teach a Gregorian Chant course for summer school classes. It teaches the fundamentals of Gregorian Chant. The lessons consist of prenote reading activities that prepare the way for the actual note reading and note singing instructions. Each page in the workbook is used as an exercise in listening to instructions and following directions. A teacher's manual for the coures indicates it was a forty-five minute class period for a one-month religion vacation school. Sister Gemma Gertken, OSB, taught music and piano and wrote curriculum. She believed children cold learn to read, write, compose in and sing Gregorian chant and she wrote a instructional program to teach it to them.
Contributing Institution:: Saint Benedict's Monastery
Type:: Text
Format:: Instructional materials

Creator:: Gertken, Sister Gemma (1894-1990)
Date Created:: 1941 - 1947
Description:: The second workbook in a collection by Sister Gemma Gertken is a continuation of Work Book 1 on the Gregorian Chant course for summer school classes. Workbook 2 continues to teach the fundamentals of Gregorian Chant. A teacher's manual for the coures indicates it was a forty-five minute class period for a one-month religion vacation school. Sister Gemma Gertken, OSB, taught music and piano and wrote curriculum. She believed children cold learn to read, write, compose in and sing Gregorian chant and she wrote a instructional program to teach it to them.
Contributing Institution:: Saint Benedict's Monastery
Type:: Text
Format:: Instructional materials

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