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 ...

An order of cloistered Benedictine nuns in France has signed a deal with Universal Music to produce an album of Gregorian chant. The abbess said that after time in prayer the nuns decided the effort ...

The Benedictine Monks of Clear Creek Abbey in Oklahoma have teamed up with De Montfort Music and Sophia Music Group to release a new album of Advent melodies that takes advantage of Apple’s new ...

On a recent Monday at the Abbey of Regina Laudis here, about 35 nuns gather in a dim chapel to chant, as they do every day at noon. Making their way through Psalm 118, the nuns sit or stand; some face ...

DENTON, Neb. — At the sound of a tap, dozens of young men clad in black cassocks and white surplices rise from kneeling positions to watch two of their brother priests begin a chant. With a gentle ...

In his letter to Cardinal Joseph Höffner for the Seventh International Congress of Sacred Music, John Paul II praised the unifying power of Gregorian chant within Catholic liturgy because of its ...

Spending 13 weeks at the top of the classical music charts, a group of priests are reinvigorating an early musical genre. Special correspondent Dennis Kellogg of NET reports from eastern Nebraska. A ...

Existing for over a thousand years and still practised today, Gregorian chant is one of the most sophisticated forms of sacred music. It is not only the chant of the Church, but also the chant of the ...

A surprising number of huge-selling, classic albums came out in March 1994: Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral, Soundgarden’s Superunknown, Pink Floyd’s The Division Bell. But the most perplexing ...

VALPARAISO | William Eifrig spent two decades studying the dismissal at the end of the Catholic Mass. Now, his work has been published by a prestigious international press. Eifrig is a former chairman ...