St. Mary's Church in Auburn will celebrate a special mass sung in a Gregorian chant for Pope Francis on Tuesday.

Gregorian chants generally don't have too much in common with rock music. Sure, sometimes they set a brooding tone in an intro to a doom metal song, but rockers generally scream, growl, wail or ...

If the past is any indication of what the future may hold for Gregorian chant’s place in Catholic life, prospects are good that it may once again become the principal music at Mass.

The fact the chant entered the mainstream, coupled with Pope Benedict XVI’s support for Latin Mass, gives chant enthusiasts hope for more renewal.

In Gregorian chant, the verbal text plays an integral part in influencing and shaping the melodic contours. Within these melodic phrases, the main function of additional signs and letters added to ...

If you missed last week's installment, check out A Short History of Long-Haired Music archives here. Was there music before Bach? Ummm, of course there was. Composers just didn't put their names ...

More than a century ago, the monks of Solesmes helped resurrect Gregorian chants from the dustbin of liturgical history.

The angelic beauty of Gregorian chant comes to Texarkana soon for a special two-day event at Texarkana College and Sacred Heart Catholic Church.

Gregorian chant holds a place in popular imagination as the province of hooded monks intoning monotonous melodies along dim stone corridors. It's not like that. At St. Stephen's Catholic Church in ...

On a recent Friday afternoon, amid the bustle of midtown Anchorage traffic, the sounds of Old World liturgical chant — deep baritones mixing with high alto voices — floated from a tiny chapel.