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Capacity Building Activities

  • Understand and appreciate the sound and their characteristics

  • Understand and appreciate wide-ranging Music Globally

  • Differentiate between song, hymns, bhajans, and Na japs…

  • Learn to train ones vocal and voice production/development

  • Learn to read and write western Music

  • Get trained in Solfeggio (Sight singing; Look at the notes and sing), Key and Time signatures and dynamics in signing

  • Learn to teach music, songs, and hymns

  • Know to use microphone and sound system

  • Take part and learn Group dynamics / Team building workshops

Know your Choir Ministry 

  • Learn to sing in Unison and in Polyphonic (different voices)

  • Learn to start and sustain a choir in a parish

  • Understand the features of Liturgical singing and Para-liturgical singing

  • Learn to conduct a choir

  • Understand about accompaniments

  • Know the importance of the Dynamics in singing

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Appreciate the Sacred Music Ministry 

  • Sacred Music and its types; Liturgical singing, hymns, Devotionals, Christian songs   

  • History of liturgical singing from AD 500

  • Sacred Music and its classification

  • Sacred Traditions & Practices on Sacred Music in the Church

  • Importance of the Sacred Music Ministry

  • Catholic Doctrine on liturgical singing and Sacred Music 

  • Sacred Music in Liturgy and Para-Liturgy

  • Chanting of the Psalms

  • Chanting of the Gospel Acclamation 

Know about the Liturgical Singing

  • Parts of the Mass & Liturgical Singing

  • Degrees of the Mass & Liturgical Singing

  • Ordinaries of the Mass & Liturgical Singing

  • Propers of the Mass & Liturgical Singing

  • Role/importance of hymns in the liturgy with special attention to Sundays, feast days and the Holy week

  • Rubrics of the day, the theme of the day and the hymns to be sung 

  • Roman Missal and the Sung Mass; Strategies, rules, regulations, practices to be followed in the Diocese on ‘Sacred Music’

  • Dos and Don’ts of Liturgical singing

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Learn meaningful hymns based on the Rubrics and Sung Masses as per the Roman Missal

  • Singing during the Liturgical Year / Cycle:  A, B, C

  • Singing for Propers of Saints

  • Singing for the Ritual Masses

  • Hymns for Solemnities, Holy Days, and other important needs

  • Sung Masses; English, Latin, Telugu, Tamil

  • Hymns for the celebration of Sacraments/ Rituals; special focus on 1st Holy Communion, Confirmation, Holy Orders, Nuptial Mass, funeral mass

Share and disseminate

  • Be a catalyst in the parish and share with the parish choir what is learned

  • Share talents, music, hymns with the parish choir and parish

  • Create a database of recorded hymns, sung masses, music score and lyrics

  • Accumulate, record, and store multi-lingual Hymns & Chants:

  • Liturgical Cycle, Parts of the Mass, Sacraments, Life cycle...  

  • Learn 2 set of ‘Sung Mass’ in English, Latin, Telugu, Tamil...

  • Perform Catholic Faith-based Musicals: Xmas, Lent, Easter, Saints…

  • Record and distribute / publish ACD / DVDs

  • Look for new instruction from the Diocese and Vatican and follow up

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