This new initiative invites the faithful to raise their voices in song alongside Pope Leo XIV, who has done so himself ...

Besides being sad or scary, they have something else in common: the dies irae. “Dies irae” translates from Latin to “Day of Wrath” — it’s a 13th-century Gregorian chant describing the ...

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 ...

They bow toward the altar and to the abbess, then take their places in the choir stalls. Gregorian chants give each day in this cloistered monastery its spine and shape. The nuns sing together ...

Not only has he proposed to widen the use of Baroque sacred music and Gregorian chant — the medieval music that served the Catholic Church for centuries — but he also may seek to eliminate the ...

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 ...

But the most perplexing hit, both then and now, arrived 25 years ago today. Chant was an album of Gregorian chants recorded decades earlier by Spain’s Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos.

To this day, Gregorian chant remains at the bedrock of the Latin mass, as well as the development of Western music overall. After the organist’s prelude and a hymn for the whole congregation ...

From PBS station NET in Nebraska, Dennis Kellogg has our story. When you hear Gregorian chants, ancient churches and monasteries in Europe may come to mind, but these chants are thousands of miles ...

Just like the scaffolding that protected Notre Dame as it was being rebuilt, the music performed Friday in Annapolis, Saturday in Baltimore, and Thursday in Bethesda — Gregorian plainsong chant ...