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.

The Pope has called for a revival of the sacred music of the church's past. After folk and rock 'n' roll Masses, what will the faithful make of polyphony, asks Aengus Collins Earlier this summer a ...

Janalynn Castelino has marked her first release of 2024 with the polyphonic Latin Chant "Jesu Salvator Mundi". Epic in every sense of the word, Janalynn has rendered the chant in 3 voices with the ...

Performances at Trinity Cathedral and the Musical Instrument Museum will feature sacred works for Holy Week and a spring-themed program marking the ensemble’s MIM debut. The Phoenix Chorale will ...

ON a swelteringly hot morning in this elegant capital city recently, worshippers crammed in the ornately frescoed sixth-century Anchiskhati Basilica. Women in colorful head scarves prayed and kissed ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a recent Monday at the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, about 35 nuns gather in a dimly lit chapel to chant, as they do every day at noon. Making their way through Psalm 118, the nuns sit or ...

New research has uncovered the earliest known practical piece of polyphonic music, an example of the principles that laid the foundations of European musical tradition. The earliest known practical ...

Rachael Kohn: What you're hearing is Gregorian Chant. But it seems Pope Gregory the 1st, known as The Great, had little if anything to do with it. Hello, this is The Ark, and I'm Rachael Kohn. The ...