August 12, 2005
EGBDF
Together with her fellow soprano Sarah, CP’s coaching the children’s “choir camp,” a four-day extravaganza in our parish this week. Some twenty members of our Angel (sic) Choir attend the late afternoon sessions learning hymns, anthems, descants, music notation, and more or less how to get along.
I was pleased to learn that their superb, patient, but demanding kappelmeister still uses Every Good Boy Does Fine and FACE for teaching the treble clef like when I first took up the cornet. But I guess I never knew before that the treble clef is also called the “G clef” because the symbol at the beginning of the staff (a stylized letter “G” — so that’s where that symbol came from!?) encircles the second line of the staff. This also serves to establish the pitches of the notes placed on the lines and spaces of the staff.
Scott Peck wrote in The Road that basketball teams and jazz bands were good examples of community as he understands it. All the players have a pretty good idea of their own and their neighbor’s capacities and limits and act accordingly to accomplish a satisfactory end. He didn’t mention church choirs, but there’s always hope and no better place to start than with the angels.
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