Phoenix Chorale will present CHANT AND POLYPHONY at Trinity Cathedral and BLOOM at the Musical Instrument Museum this spring. The March program features Gregorian chant and sacred works for Holy Week, ...

We have all heard it, yet most of us would not be able to name it. The term polyphony (from the Greek for “many sounds”) is used to describe music that employs simultaneous yet independent melodies.

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Janalynn Castelino has marked her first release of 2024 with the polyphonic ...

NEW YORK — When Christopher Alder, an 11-time Grammy winning music producer, first was asked to help create an album of Gregorian Chant, he was short on details. “When I was asked to do this recording ...

The St. Ann Choir of Palo Alto, Calif., was new when William Mahrt joined in 1963. At the time he was a graduate student at nearby Stanford University. Today Mahrt is a Stanford music professor, ...

The angelic choirs must sound something like this, full-throated in song: four strands of voice — soprano, alto, tenor, bass — weaving toward the same destination along different roads of melody. The ...

The 17th century was the time of the highest flowering of choral musical culture in Russia and Ukraine. This century was also the richest in the variety of musical styles of liturgical music. In the ...

Pope Francis greets choir members during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square in a file photo. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.) Listen Is contemporary Catholic church music “mediocre, superficial and ...

When Christopher Alder, an 11-time Grammy winning music producer, first was asked to help create an album of Gregorian Chant, he was short on details. "When I was asked to do this recording, I was ...