SCHOLA ANTIQUA WEBPAGE (www.scholaantiqua.net)

Statement of Purpose

The Schola Antiqua was founded in 1972 to study and perform early medieval liturgical music. Its efforts have expanded to include publication of (a) studies on & musical transcriptions of early medieval chant and polyphony, (b) audio compact discs of Schola Antiqua performances and of select out-of-print or rare longplaying recordings, (c) source-books for teaching and studying, (d) information on the Alexander Technique, & (e) information on La Casa del Libro in San Juan, PR.

This website was begun in autumn 2000; some entries are currently in place, others will be posted as they are ready. Some essays are or will be available on-line; other publications and CDs are for sale. The five source-books for teaching and studying, in pdf and totaling over 1,200 pages, will be available for free downloading by the end of 2008.

R. John Blackley, 407 Spring Valley Road, Lexington, Virginia 24450 540-464-1195 blackley@hughes.net

SCHOLA ANTIQUA PUBLICATIONS

Essays and books

by R. John Blackley:

• two essays on proportional-rhythm chant
• Rhythm in Western Sacred Music Before the Mid-Twelfth Century and the Historical Importance of Proportional-Rhythm Chant, illustrated with music and recordings
• Source-Books for Teaching and Studying: Humanities I & II, Western & Eastern World Religions, and Towards a New Ethics

by Barbara Lachman:

• On Hildegard von Bingen
• Voices for Catherine Blake, a novel on the wife of William Blake
• Tomorrow at 5, a Monika Claude novel
• An essay on the American poet Abbie Huston Evans (downloadable)

by Denis Stevens:

• essays on Monteverdi’s Vespers (1610) and Elgar’s Enigma Variations

Musical transcriptions and performing editions by the Schola Antiqua

• Ancient Chant Hymns in Syllabic Rhythm
• Kyriale—Early Chant Mass Ordinaries in Proportional Rhythm
• Chant Mass Propers for Sundays & major feasts transcribed in proportional rhythm
• For performing editions of early medieval polyphony and medieval liturgical dramas, please see above,
  Rhythm in Western Sacred Music Before the Mid-Twelfth Century…

Recordings on Compact Discs

• Performances by the Schola Antiqua
• Out-of-print recordings of performances by Günter Ramin
• Performances conducted by Arthur Mendel
• Out-of-print recordings of Bach cantatas conducted by Fritz Lehmann
• Select general out-of-print or rare LP recordings
• Recordings by Denis Stevens and the Accademia Monteverdiana

Information

• On the Alexander Technique
• On La Casa del Libro in San Juan, Puerto Rico