The Chairman and Central Committee of The Gregorian Schola of Sydney
thank all those involved in making 2011 a great year of learning, singing,
and praising the Lord through Gregorian Chant.
We welcome you and your friends to join us in 2012.
Rehearsals will begin on Thursday March 15 commencing at 6.30pm.
Our practice Venue is
St. Aloysius' College Senior School Chapel, Milson's Point
with its great acoustics and powerful pipe organ, all in prayerful space.
Directions by train to St Aloysius' :
1. Alight at Milson's Point Railway Station. 2. Exit via the eastern entrance, then turn right on to Broughton St.
3. Go past a few restaurants then turn left into Fitzroy St. 4. Take the first Right into Jersey
and you will be facing the imposing ediface of St. Aloysius Senior School. Follow Jersey St veering left as it turns to
Upper Pitt St. 5. Enter via down ramp on the right hand side of the street to the enclosed quadrangle.
Turn left and find staircase up one level, and walk over the courtyard bridge to the Senior School chapel.
If locked ring 0427-186-864 and we will come to let you in.
There is some street parking, and parking at Jeffrey Street Wharf, on the eastern side of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
For between practices try the following site
http://antoinedanielmass.org/kyriale/ for mp3 players
We present to you above our new logo, specifically designed for
The Gregorian Schola of Sydney by well known, talented, architect Harry Stephens, also a singer in our schola. Some may recall that our previous logo, widely regarded as the Cross of Charlemagne, was adopted by the newly formed Sydney schola from the sponsoring Gregorian Schola of Los Angeles. It was retained for our first twenty years. Charlemagne, or Frankish leader Charles the Great, encouraged the Roman “Gregorian” Chant in his kingdom to the extent that it was sung in every monastery. The first tonaries (8th century) and earliest notated liturgical books (10th century),
which are also the earliest Western musical notation,
are from the Carolingian kingdom.
With our well-qualified Executive, Harry looked into the actual historic “signature” of Charlemagne. He writes “ From what I can determine Charlemagne was illiterate and although he tried, was unable to make more than a rudimentary mark as his monogram. As he was trying, my guess is he would have used a stylus that would produce two weights of line – the stroke down from L-R being the wider, the stroke down (or up) from R-L (or L-R) being the narrower. It seems that the marks of his, in what we now call his, “signature” were either the  or at most  . I have no doubt that the K, R, L & S were added by the scribe. KRLS = KAROLUS without vowels thus sufficient. 
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