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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The earliest music recorded in Ireland is not the traditional music collected by Bunting and Petrie but the elegantly austere Medieval Latin Chant of the monasteries and the choral group Cantoral have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...