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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. IN their black robes and red cinctures, members of the St Laurence Gregorian Schola look like they ...

We’re all familiar with R&B boy bands, teen dream boy bands and K-pop boy bands. But what about a medieval boy band? While taking a meditative stroll through the royal monastery of San Lorenzo de El ...

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 ...

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 ...