{"id":1086,"date":"2018-11-08T21:44:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T02:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/blog\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2018-11-08T21:51:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T02:51:24","slug":"intro-to-church-singing-is-now-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/intro-to-church-singing-is-now-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Intro to Church Singing is now free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As of November 4, the MCI Online class <a href=\"http:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/online\/course\/view.php?id=7\"><strong>Introduction to Church Singing<\/strong><\/a> can be taken for <strong>free<\/strong> by all cantors, clergy, and parishioners of Byzantine Catholic parishes in the United States. (Non-members can take the class for $75.) This class teaches the <em>basics<\/em> for singing in church &#8211; musical sound, fundamentals of singing and reading music, and how to lead basic responses used in all services. Recommended for anyone who wants to learn our plain chant!<\/p>\n<p>The course itself has been somewhat reorganized, with the addition of a new teaching song for the degrees of the scale, a full set of voice training videos, and new material in the final week on chant harmonization.<\/p>\n<p>You can request an ID at <a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"https:\/\/metropolitancantorinstitute.org\/blog\/online\">https:\/\/metropolitancantorinstitute.org\/blog\/online<\/a> at any time and sign up.\u00a0\u00a0 (Offer is for members of the Byzantine Catholic Church in the US;\u00a0 for others, tuition is $75.)\u00a0 If there is someone in your parish who would like to learn to sing our plain chant, please encourage them to try this course out!<\/p>\n<p>In the past, we had some e-mail problems with the Archeparchy&#8217;s web server provider.\u00a0 So if you previously requested an ID, try logging in. If you have questions or difficulties, write me directly at <a href=\"mailto:mci@archpitt.org\">mci@archpitt.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One request: if you have an ID, or get one, please update your profile entry with your parish name in the form &#8220;&lt;name&#8221;, &lt;city&gt; &lt;state&gt;&#8221; &#8211; for example, &#8220;St. Mary&#8217;s, Morgantown WV.&#8221;\u00a0 If you just enter &#8220;St. John the Baptist&#8221; is makes it quite hard for me to tell where you actually are!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of November 4, the MCI Online class Introduction to Church Singing can be taken for free by all cantors, clergy, and parishioners of Byzantine Catholic parishes in the United States. (Non-members can take the class for $75.) This class teaches the basics for singing in church &#8211; musical sound, fundamentals of singing and reading &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/intro-to-church-singing-is-now-free\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Intro to Church Singing is now free&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}