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 ...

The spread of a particular genre of music reflects the borders between medieval empires in Europe. This is shown by a study conducted by a musicologist at the University of Würzburg, appearing in ...

Choral singing has always been a speciality of the Scandinavian countries, and this collection of medieval chant from Latvia’s Riga, Germany’s Hamburg, Sweden’s Lund, and unexpectedly Limoges in ...

Medieval chant books and the parchment they were made of were designed to last a long time — so long, that pages of them can outlast the book itself. Across medieval Europe, monks and nuns and clergy ...

A New York quartet is to perform a form ofmedieval chant in Halifax this weekend based on a rare manuscript from the 1500s or earlier. High-born nuns from two different orders are shown in the ...

We’re all familiar with R&B boy bands, teen dream boy bands and K-pop boy bands. But what about a medieval boy band? While taking a meditative stroll through the royal monastery of San Lorenzo de El ...

The ancient idea of music as "heightened speech" is nowhere better demonstrated than in the Catholic liturgy's chanted settings of the psalms: as a sober meditation on the Passion, the Tenebrae ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. 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 ...

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 ...

Medieval chant books and the parchment they were made of were designed to last a long time — so long, that pages of them can outlast the book itself. Across medieval Europe, monks and nuns and clergy ...