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Class Homework

Why homework for choir?
Great question! Your work during the week on music allows you and your singing prayer team to spend more class time on prayer and nuance and sing more beautiful music!

When doing homework and practicing, remember your mission and sing with specific intention(s). These are all "prayers in progress". Pro Choir tips and reminders for you:

  • Simply do your best, do as much you can, and ask God for help in taking the prayers to heart.

  • There is no cramming in music study. Pace yourself with shorter, focused sessions several times a week.

  • If you know specific prayers well, take time now and then to review or memorize- delight in what you know!

  • Pray and speak the words. Use your Catholic imagination to paint a picture.

  • Speak the words in rhythm.

  • Write in solfege, look for patterns, and try to hear parts using your “inner ear”.

  • Play some notes on an instrument, if needed.

  • Look or ask for a recording.

  • Ask other teammates for help. Practicing with a friend or a small group can make homework more fun!

  • Leadership opportunities will be given firstly to those who complete homework and engage during class.

Assigned Repertoire for
Lauda Sion and Jubilate Deo Choirs Spring 2025

Choir Camp Packet 2024

Choir Festival Packet 2025

Novice​

  • Review Choir Festival Packet

  • Solfege assigned chants in book or packet

  • Qui manducat carnem meam

  • Gregorian Alleluia, memorize

  • Ave verum corpus, memorize

  • Simple Ave Regina caelorum

  • Simple Regina caeli

  • Ave Maris stella

  • Attende Domine and Parce Domine, memorize refrain

  • Victim paschali laudes

  • Abide with me, review words and melody

  • Be Still My Soul, Soprano or Alto

  • Holy God, We Praise Thy Name, S or A

  • O Sacred Head Surrounded, S or A

  • Soul of My Savior, S or A

  • Je vous salue, S or A

Schola

  • Review Choir Festival Packet

  • Complete weekly class homework

  • Novice repertoire, plus:

  • Solfege (only your part for SATB)

  • Salve Mater, memorize refrain

  • Hosanna, Filio David

  • Pange lingua

  • Solemn Ave Regina caelorum

  • Dixit Maria, Hassler: memorize

  • Jesu dulcis memoria, Victoria: memorize

  • Abide with me 

  • Holy God, We Praise Thy Name

  • Caligaverunt, Victoria

  • Miserere mei, Allegri: Choral Sections

  • Missa brevis, Palestrina: Agnus Dei I & II

Cantors

  • Review Choir Festival Packet

  • Complete weekly class homework

  • Novice and Schola repertoire, plus:

  • Propers for any upcoming Mass

  • Ave Maria, Des Pres

  • Miserere mei, Allegri: Assigned Quartet parts

  • Missa brevis, Palestrina, all movements except Credo

Fall 2024

Novice

  • Solfege (only Soprano for SATB

  • Qui manducat carnem meam, pg. 172, no. 177

  • Anima Christi, pg. 177, no. 181

  • O Salutaris, pg. 191 (verses 1 and 2 only)

  • Simple Salve Regina, pg. 212

  • Ave Maria, pg. 220

  • Look ahead: Solemn Salve Regina, pg. 211

  • Soul of My Savior, review words and melody

  • Abide with me, review words and melody

  • Holy God, We Praise Thy Name, review words and melody

Schola

  • Solfege (only your part for SATB)

  • Mass IX, pg. 85 - Focus on Kyrie and Gloria

  • Qui manducat carnem meam, pg. 172, no. 177

  • Maria Mater gratiae, pg. 221

  • Solemn Salve Regina, pg. 211

  • Ave Maria, Victoria

  • Dixit Maria, Hassler

  • Exsultate justi, Viadana

  • Jesu dulcis memoria, Victoria

  • Missa iste sanctus, Guerrero - Focus on Kyrie and Sanctus

  • Abide with me 

  • Holy God, We Praise Thy Name 

Cantors

  • All Schola homework, plus:

  • Propers for any upcoming Mass

  • Conditor alme siderum, Praetorius

  • Puer natus est, Morales

  • Missa iste sanctus, Morales - Benedictus and Agnus Dei

Resource Gallery

Sacred music videos and photos.

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