Even centuries after voices first soared in the stone-walled chambers of churches and monasteries, the music of medieval monks' chants has the power to send chills through the body of listeners. Now ...

Research into "forgotten" medieval chants and prayers is shedding new light on the history of the cult of Irish saints, including St Patrick. Trinity College Dublin's Amra project is aiming to ...

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 ...

A unique project is taking place in Canada to better understand ancient religious chants, and how the medieval mind worked. Because the music was not written, the monks would have to memorize up to 80 ...

Jennifer Bain receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Anna de Bakker does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

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 ...

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 ...

Incense smoke wafts through the air. A hushed congregation waits reverently for a lone voice to rise from the front of the cathedral, their plaintive song filling the space with Latin verse that ...

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 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 ...

You wouldn’t expect this to be a best-selling musical group. The name, Anonymous 4, tells nothing about the sort of ensemble it is or the music it performs. And its specialty is medieval vocal music – ...