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 ...

The spread of a particular genre of music reflects the borders between medieval empires in Europe. This is shown by a study conducted by a musicologist at the University of Würzburg, appearing in ...

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 ...

Medieval chant books and the parchment they were made of were designed to last a long time — so long, that pages of them can outlast the book itself. Across medieval Europe, monks and nuns and clergy ...

Emma Hornby specialises in medieval music, especially Christian chant. She directs the Department of Music's women's choir, the Schola Cantorum, which specialises in medieval music and contemporary ...

You are warmly invited to join University of Bristol Music Department staff and students to spend a day experiencing chant, liturgy, and activities characteristic of medieval monastic life, in ...

Photo (excerpt) by Ralph Hammann via Wikimedia Commons; licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 St. Hildegard of Bingen was a 12th-century German nun, but she was also a writer, composer of chants, mystic, and ...

It’s situated right in the middle of Sligo and interest is being renewed into the town’s abbey with heritage week playing its role in highlighting its history with a series of events including a ...

Medieval chant books and the parchment they were made of were designed to last a long time — so long, that pages of them can outlast the book itself. Across medieval Europe, monks and nuns and clergy ...