The Gregorian chant, best known as the solemn music sung by robed monks of old, is enjoying a 21st-century revival — and the Twin Cities are at the heart of it this week. Experts and students of the ...

The U.S. bishops voted to approve close to 300 new hymn texts for the Liturgy of the Hours. The Nov. 12 vote was 205-5 with two abstentions. The proposal needed two-thirds of the Latin-rite bishops to ...

I am a cradle Catholic. I was born after the Mass of St. Paul VI was already well established. I grew up familiar with hymns like On Eagle’s Wings and The King of Glory, and I enthusiastically sang ...

A modern take on Gregorian chant, four singers, and a stairwell encounter that’s beyond words. Sometimes the most beautiful things are the simplest. Gathered in a resonant stairwell, four men sang a ...

A fervid fascination for ancient devotional paeans of Eastern and Western cultures has led Australian musicians Kim Cunio and Heather Lee to explore esoteric realms, from medieval era mysticism and ...

German composer Ludwig van Beethoven is believed to have written the rediscovered organ arrangement for a Gregorian chant. (Associated Press) A previously unknown Beethoven arrangement for an ancient ...

Beethoven's version of the hymn Pange Lingua was written around 1820 A previously unknown Beethoven arrangement for an ancient hymn has been uncovered after 192 years. The composer wrote a harmony for ...

A previously unknown Beethoven arrangement for an ancient hymn has been uncovered after 192 years. The composer wrote a harmony for the Gregorian chant Pange Lingua and modified its tune, said the ...