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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A New York quartet is to perform a form ofmedieval chant in Halifax this weekend based on a rare manuscript from the 1500s or earlier. High-born nuns from two different orders are shown in the ...

NEW HAVEN ---- For some, it's incomprehensible and unreachable, but for others, it's as close as one can get on this Earth to the Heavenly Father. It's the traditional Latin High Mass, in which the ...

Making music together for more than 30 years the Estonian performance group Horticus Musicus Latin for Music Garden has distinguished itself as the oldest continuously working ensemble in Eastern ...

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 ...

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