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 ...

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 ...

Edward Lally has loved traditional liturgical music ever since he attended Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago in the 1960s. He did not continue on to the priesthood, but his passion for early ...

For more than 20 years, more than 3 million people in 31 countries have been enchanted by GREGORIAN's live performances that blend ancient with pop music for a mesmerizing musical experience. These ...

Gregorian chant, one of the oldest forms of Western music, is finding fresh life through creative harmonization and modern accompaniment. From traditional polyphony to piano and guitar-supported ...

On Continuum this week will be a special program devoted Gregorian Chant, from a ten-CD set of the History of Music. Specifically, this volume covers musical Europe in the era of Gregorian unification ...

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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 ...

The Gregorian Choir of Paris will perform in select malls from February 18 until February 27, 2015. Just in time for the start of the Lenten Season, the Gregorian Choir of Paris brings the tradition ...