A university choir has revived music found hiding in plain sight in a book from southern England's Buckland Abbey ...

In the 1970s, a group of monks from Solesme, France, were among the first to introduce monastic music to a wider audience with an album of Gregorian chant recorded in the 1970s.

Gregorian chants, which date to the seventh century, are a form of prayer. How are they used in religious life at your monastery?

Dating back to the High Middle Ages, this music was sang for Compline—one of the last waking hours in the monastic day—at the end of every day in monasteries throughout the Holy Roman Empire.

The Monks of Norcia, a beer-brewing Benedictine order, have issued a new CD of Gregorgian chants, Benedicta: Marian Chant from Norcia.

Wallner sent Lewis a short e-mail message with a link to a video of chants that the monks had uploaded to YouTube after Pope Benedict XVI visited the monastery last September.

This is not the first time monastic chant has seen secular appeal; the biggest seller to date has been a CD called “Chant,” which became a pop-culture sensation 21 years ago. It featured music ...

Mention “musical monks” to most people, and what they usually think of are Benedictine Friars singing Gregorian chants. But Catholicism isn’t the only faith with a monastic music tradition ...

"I come from a culture where the music is very monastic," he says. "A lot of that music is improvised. There are obviously words and chants that are pretty ancient, and it's been codified in some ...

This is not the first time monastic chant has seen secular appeal; the biggest seller to date has been a CD called "Chant," which became a pop culture sensation 21 years ago.