Hello all,
I hope you?re all well.
I have a question to ask people who know about C of E churches. Is there a common way of organising children?s music?
I am in our formal, robed choir. I would like my dds to start singing at some point, learning to read music, doing the proper choral bit. Our current set up is not suitable for them, we would need a more littly-friendly experience ? not at 9pm for instance. I was wondering how, in general, children get ?inducted? into choral singing. They sing one hymn every Sunday at Sunday school, usually a happy clappy one, they are not given music to read or attempt to read. What is the usual way of managing choir for children, at churches where children are in the choir? These are the things I am wondering:
Is it usually done on Sundays or some other time?
Do they usually get taught to read music, or do they do that in their own time in lessons organised by their parents?
Do they usually do it as a children?s thing or are general choir rehearsals slightly re-jigged so that children can join in?
I have an ulterior motive in all this. I see this as something I could help with which could be my get-out clause from having to get involved with Sunday School proper, or crèche, which I don?t want to do very much. Also if it were done in Sunday School time, it would be a way of spending time with dd1, if she wants to do it, because she wants to be with me, not at Sunday school.
We have a lot of children a little older than my dds who are about the right age to start learning, and it is something I think the new-ish vicar would be in sympathy with.
Please share your experiences of training little choristers! Thank you