It isn't every day that a group of Catholic monks find themselves on the pop charts. Yet that's what happened to the monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz, a 12th-century Cistercian monastery near Vienna, ...

A new Gregorian chant CD by a group of Benedictine monks in Norcia, Italy, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's classical music chart last week. The album, "Benedicta," was also the top overall seller at ...

“Ave Maria,” Gregorian Chant performed by Seraphic Fire (Seraphic Fire Media). The Grammy-nominated Florida ensemble Seraphic Fire, led by Patrick Dupre Quigley, sings Gregorian chant as well as ...

BETHLEHEM, Conn. — On a recent Monday at the Abbey of Regina Laudis, 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 ...

The velvet-draped singers will perform a rendition of famous hits for their UAE debut In theory it should never have worked. Seven monks dressed in crushed velvet, performing songs by Madonna, U2 and ...

Timothy S. McDonnell, director of music ministries at the Institute of Sacred Music, Benjamin T. Rome School of Music at The Catholic University of America in Washington, conducts an Oct. 10 Gregorian ...

A rare opportunity to explore an ancient sung prayer tradition is being held at a Preston church for free this week.

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 doors to ...

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 ...