28.10.2016
Church Music Dublin Launches New ACCM Syllabus
Church Music Dublin launched the revised syllabus of the Archbishop’s Certificate in Church Music recently. The revised syllabus puts greater emphasis on skills in playing and accompanying hymns and worship songs and it was launched in Monkstown Parish Church.
The new syllabus was unveiled during a service let by Archdeacon Ricky Rountree, chairperson of Church Music Dublin. The readers were Canon Adrienne Galligan, a member Church Music Dublin and Canon Roy Byrne, Rector of Monkstown. Past and present students played voluntaries on the organ before and after the service and accompanied hymns and Anglican chant during the service.
Church Music Dublin is an agency of the Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough that provides training, resources and information to musicians and clergy in parish churches. They offer a three–year course (with an optional introductory Foundation Course) leading to the Archbishop of Dublin’s Certificate in Church Music.
The purpose of the course is to ensure a continuing supply of trained musicians to provide music regularly or occasionally for church services in local churches. Participants on the course are sponsored by their parishes.
The course covers organ playing, leading and encouraging congregational singing, leadership of small groups such as choirs and music groups and familiarity with the Book of Common Prayer, the use of the Lectionary and an understanding of the role of music in the Sunday services.
Full details of the course criteria and syllabus are available on the Church Music Dublin website http://www.churchmusicdublin.org/
Photo captions:
Top – Members of Church Music Dublin and participants on the ACCM Course at the launch of the revised syllabus in Monkstown Parish Church.
Bottom: Archdeacon Ricky Rountree, Canon Adrienne Galligan and Canon Roy Byrne at the launch of the revised ACCM syllabus in Monkstown Parish Church.