The Gregorian Chant. Share full article. From Donahoe's. Oct. 2, 1898; ... Its tones have been the foundations-of the best hymns and anthems, ...

BETHLEHEM, Conn. — On a recent Monday at the Abbey of Regina Laudis, about 35 nuns gather in a dim chapel to chant, as they do every day at noon. Making their way through Psalm 118, the nuns sit ...

More recent research indicates that Gregorian chant has its roots in the early 4th century, when desert monks would chant all 150 psalms. The practice of chanting scripture and liturgical texts ...

“Gregorian chant should have the first place in musical liturgy,” William Mahrt, the president of the Church Music Association of America, told McClatchey Newspapers. “[It’s] the ...

In Gregorian chant, ... For instance, the following example from Psalm 21 shows a letter like a "T" over some neumes. This "T" refers to tenete, which means to hold and emphasise.

Spending 13 weeks at the top of the classical music charts, a group of priests are reinvigorating an early musical genre. Special correspondent Dennis Kellogg of NET reports from eastern Nebraska.

Real Gregorian chant is, first and foremost, a form of prayer, based on the Psalms and other ancient texts. It has been "sung over centuries and centuries," said Folsom, and to monks, "chant is ...