tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31227410173594240722024-03-05T08:52:10.011-08:00 Sangha SongsBuddhist Chant tutorials for teaching the Sangha how to sing and chant in the Plum Village tradition of thich nhat hanh.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3122741017359424072.post-53716042251297585912020-12-29T20:44:00.001-08:002020-12-29T20:49:27.527-08:00When I Rise Worldwide Virtual Choir https://youtu.be/WTUQrLPPkTAWishing everyone around the world a safe and happy New Year!This spring as the pandemic spread around the world, all public gatherings were cancelled, including choirs and mindfulness retreats. We have missed singing together! So I started an ambitious project of trying to put together a world-wide virtual singing group to perform the song "When I Rise". Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3122741017359424072.post-76326596725192953172018-11-28T03:00:00.000-08:002018-11-28T19:46:45.680-08:00Chanting as a River: Chants to Nourish the Heart of Compassion, Courage, Awakening and LiberationEmily and I recently returned from several months in Plum Village where we were
working with the monastics on a new multi-harmony chanting album in
English, Spanish, Vietnamese and French. We just received word today from Plum Village that the new album has officially launched on all the major online music distributing
sites. Great news! We're happy to be able to share it with you.
Here's a Unknownnoreply@blogger.comMeyrac, 47120 Loubès-Bernac, France44.7341438 0.31875370000000219.212109299999998 -40.9898403 70.2561783 41.6273477tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3122741017359424072.post-12508512599780536982017-05-02T23:00:00.000-07:002017-05-02T23:55:31.620-07:00El Canto de la Mañana (Thich Nhat Hanh / Plum Village tradition)The new Morning Chant in Spanish, sung in three part harmony at Deer Park Monastery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEIJtcjcrZA
Last year Brother Phap Liu gave me the words to the morning and evening chants in Spanish, and requested that I try to compose music for them. This is the music I wrote for the morning chant. The lyrics and sheet music for the melody are below.
Singing with me inUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3122741017359424072.post-58053198659849805412016-05-13T15:25:00.002-07:002016-05-13T15:27:59.118-07:00Coming Home To Myself - I Enjoy Going Back to My Island (lyrics, guitar chords, harmony)At a recent retreat I had the pleasure of studying with Michael Ciborski, and meeting Fern and the rest of the family as well. Really insightful people, I have a lot of respect and admiration for the music and work they do: I highly recommend taking a look at Michael's TrueMiddleWay.org website (True Middle Way was his name as a monastic).
During the retreat Michael shared a new setUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3122741017359424072.post-20736166712082967082016-05-03T10:38:00.003-07:002016-05-13T11:07:39.910-07:00I Am Remembering
I learned this song at Deer Park Monastery and was told it could be sung as a two part round but the timing was a little tricky. Nothing is quite so motivating as a challenge, so I sat down with it and figured it out. It only had two parts, so I composed a third line for the round to create a fuller sound. Hope you enjoy the new version in the video tutorial below.
This tutorial was aUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3122741017359424072.post-46387958144212505972016-04-22T16:16:00.000-07:002020-04-29T05:30:30.043-07:00And When I Rise: Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass TutorialsDear friends,
What a wonderful day! I am posting the choral parts for my arrangement of "And When I Rise" today, and I just received some great news... but first the choir parts:
You'll find video tutorials for each of the practice parts (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass) posted below. Be sure to look at the other post of "And When I Rise", to hear the solo and guitar parts. A lyrics sheet Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3122741017359424072.post-36759776563952727672016-03-15T22:57:00.000-07:002016-03-16T13:26:56.079-07:00And When I Rise: A New Version for the New Year
We were visiting Plum Village in France when I first heard this melody, and I
thought to myself, "How wonderful would it be to sing that in four part harmony, choral style?"
So upon our return I composed a new arrangement. I also added a bridge with lyrics from the Plum Village morning Gatha:
"Waking up this morning, I smile.
Twenty-four brand new hours are before me.
I vow to live Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3122741017359424072.post-20002271445052488872016-01-22T10:45:00.000-08:002016-05-15T14:10:12.425-07:00The Heart Sutra (The Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore)These are the teaching tutorials for chanting the new version of the Heart Sutra, translated by Thich Nhat Hanh on Sept. 11, 2014. Music in the Plum Village Tradition composed by Br. Phap Linh.
First download and print this study sheet with all the words. It has been divided into parts to match the tutorials below.
Note: You can also now download the video and audio versions of these Unknownnoreply@blogger.com