Intention
Before you start
This course focuses on calling and answering. To participate, choose only those songs whose public broadcast and singing are explicit.
Preparation
Settle into attentive listening
- Start listening to a full rehearsal.
- Just take the public chorus.
- Keep pronunciation as faithful as possible.
Proposed sequence
4 steps, in this order
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Songs of Taizé
Open on Spotify ↗Wait for the Lord
Taizé Community
Install a very simple common pulse.Understanding tradition →Hindu Kīrtan
Open on Spotify ↗Like a River to the Sea
Jahnavi Harrison
Discover the principle of responsibility of the diasporic kīrtan.Understanding tradition →Hasidic nigunim
Open on Spotify ↗Nigunim Vol. I
Joey Weisenberg
Let a melody without words become collective memory.Understanding tradition →African-American Spirituals and Gospel
Open on Spotify ↗Amazing Grace
Aretha Franklin
Listen to the living relationship between soloist, choir and assembly.Understanding tradition →Return to silence
To conclude
Finish without automatic applause: let the group return to silence.