In Gregorian chant, the verbal text plays an integral part in influencing and shaping the melodic contours. Within these melodic phrases, the main function of additional signs and letters added to the ...

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Spending 13 weeks at the top of the classical music charts, a group of priests are reinvigorating an early musical genre. Special correspondent Dennis Kellogg of NET reports from eastern Nebraska. A ...

For more than 20 years, more than 3 million people in 31 countries have been enchanted by GREGORIAN's live performances that blend ancient with pop music for a mesmerizing musical experience. These ...

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 ...

In celebration of its 50th anniversary and in advance of the public reopening of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in France, the Gregorian Choir of Paris is launching its inaugural U.S. tour this weekend — an ...

It all started – as most good things do – on TikTok. I had just candidly filmed a mate staring into space, and it was now time to upload this scandalous footage in order to somehow dunk on her. I just ...

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 ...

“It is a musical conversation, a dialogue and not a fusion,” says leading Carnatic vocalist Aruna Sairam. The Padma Shri recipient was in the city with French musician Dominique Vellard to create ...

The Gregorian Choir of Paris will perform in select malls from February 18 until February 27, 2015. Just in time for the start of the Lenten Season, the Gregorian Choir of Paris brings the tradition ...