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 ...

Every generation since the beginning of recorded music discovers Gregorian Chant. The most recent (re)discovery was in the mid-1990s with the phenomenally successful Chant CDs from The Benedictine ...

Members of the choir sing Gregorian chant during Mass Oct. 8 at St. John the Beloved Church in McLean, Virginia. Gregorian chant is the singing of the liturgy and its texts are almost entirely ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The European Commission granted more than 3 million euros to a project developing AI tools to save centuries of Gregorian chant. The French Abbey of Sainte Madeleine du Barroux has opened its doors to ...

Rachael Kohn: What you're hearing is Gregorian Chant. But it seems Pope Gregory the 1st, known as The Great, had little if anything to do with it. Hello, this is The Ark, and I'm Rachael Kohn. The ...

BETHLEHEM, Conn. — On a recent Monday at the Abbey of Regina Laudis, 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 ...

Gregorian will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 23, at the Rialto Theater Center, 228 E. Fourth St. The group performs Gregorian chants in the traditional Latin as well as more contemporary pop ...