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

Gregorian chant is named for the sainted Pope Gregory I (circa A.D. 540-604). Musicologists say the pope probably didn't invent plainsong, but his name was used to help it spread from monastery to ...

After a public relations push by Pope Benedict XVI, who wants Gregorian chant restored to its “pride of place” in the liturgy, a plainsong renaissance is percolating among U.S. Catholics as well.

Saying that Gregorian chant, as sung by the inimitable Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos, sold a few records 10 years ago is like saying the Beatles wrote some decent songs in the 1960s.

GREGORIAN chant is enjoying a revival, as new singers have their eyes opened to the beauties of the oldest continuously sung repertoire in Western Europe, the director of a group established 40 years ...

"Plainsong," with feelingKent Haruf wrote the words to accompany Peter Brown’s photo display on the quiet isolation of life in rural eastern Colorado: “You have to know how to look at this ...

“Plainsong” deals with familiar themes: loss of innocence (in this case, that of the Guthrie boys and the McPherons, perhaps 60 years their senior), endurance of hardship and cruelty, finding ...

Just like the scaffolding that protected Notre Dame as it was being rebuilt, the music performed Friday in Annapolis, Saturday in Baltimore, and Thursday in Bethesda — Gregorian plainsong chant ...