Women in colorful head scarves prayed and kissed icons as the venerable Anchiskhati Choir sang harmonically striking polyphonic chants. It’s a familiar scene in Georgia, a Caucasus country where ...

The Holy Father believed Renaissance polyphony corresponded very well with Gregorian chant, “the supreme model of all sacred music.” Because of this smooth liturgical connection, high quality ...

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 ...

How could the church that brought about Gregorian chant, polyphony and musical notation -- all profound influences on Western music -- be the same one leading sing-alongs of "Love Is Colored Like ...

On December 5th, Demestvo presents "Lost Polyphonies": a program showcasing the earliest traditions of vocal polyphony from Europe, performed alongside contemporary compositions that engage with these ...

The expert on Gregorian chant and polyphony spoke with Register correspondent Roseanne Therese Sullivan. Not many people are familiar with the Catholic Music Association of America. Would you tell ...

How could the church that brought about Gregorian chant, polyphony and musical notation -- all profound influences on Western music -- be the same one leading singalongs of “Love Is Colored Like ...

But almost all manuscripts of these polyphonic styles were composed in the mid-17th century. The medieval monody itself, or Znamenny chant, is closely related to the Byzantine melos of the 12th-14th ...

Palo Alto’s St. Ann Choir, formed in 1963 and renowned for polyphonic music and also Gregorian chant that predates the eighth and ninth centuries, has been singing every week for five decades.

The sacred music is primarily from the Manuscrit du Puy which brings together a varied group of Aquitanian monodic and polyphonic chants for the New Year from the 12th to the 16th centuries.