NEW HAVEN ---- For some, it's incomprehensible and unreachable, but for others, it's as close as one can get on this Earth to the Heavenly Father. It's the traditional Latin High Mass, in which the ...

In Gregorian chant, the verbal text plays an integral part in influencing and shaping the melodic contours. Within these melodic phrases, the main function of additional signs and letters added to the ...

Mary Berry was a musician who, throughout a long and varied professional life, enriched the world of sacred music in a wide variety of ways. Lecturer, writer, performer, broadcaster, teacher, scholar ...

Even centuries after voices first soared in the stone-walled chambers of churches and monasteries, the music of medieval monks' chants has the power to send chills through the body of listeners. Now ...

Gregorian chant has persisted for more than a thousand years, but some fear the haunting melodies are in danger of fading away. That is, unless Stanford Professor William Mahrt has a voice in the ...

This haunting, 13th-century Gregorian chant has worked its way into many favourite film scores, and plays a special part in Hans Zimmer’s music to ‘The Lion King’. Whether you heard it first on ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. IN their black robes and red cinctures, members of the St Laurence Gregorian Schola look like they have stepped from the set of the Sean ...

LOS ANGELES — More than 70 Catholic men and women gathered from across the United States and countries abroad for an intensive week at the Sacred Music Symposium to bring alive a powerful form of ...