CHAMPAIGN – The hum of low-pitched voices is soothing. "Me ma ma ooh moo" sounds come from voices warming up. A Gregorian chant choir practices in the choir loft of Holy Cross Catholic Church every ...

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 sing.

Gregorian will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 23, at the Rialto Theater Center, 228 E. Fourth St. The group performs Gregorian chants in the traditional Latin as well as more contemporary pop ...

The Benedictine Monks of Clear Creek Abbey in Oklahoma have teamed up with De Montfort Music and Sophia Music Group to release a new album of Advent melodies that takes advantage of Apple’s new ...

Every generation since the beginning of recorded music discovers Gregorian Chant. The most recent (re)discovery was in the mid-1990s with the phenomenally successful Chant CDs from The Benedictine ...

A new Gregorian chant CD by a group of Benedictine monks in Norcia, Italy, made it debut on Billboard’s classical-music chart at No. 1 last week. The album, Benedicta, was also the top overall seller ...

(UNDATED) It doesn’t have much of a beat, the kids can’t dance to it, and it’s sung in a dead language. But Gregorian chant seems to be the hottest thing in sacred music right now. Consider the ...

Existing for over a thousand years and still practised today, Gregorian chant is one of the most sophisticated forms of sacred music. It is not only the chant of the Church, but also the chant of the ...

An order of cloistered Benedictine nuns in France has signed a deal with Universal Music to produce an album of Gregorian chant. The abbess said that after time in prayer the nuns decided the effort ...

A medieval style of music has been enjoying great popularity for three decades now: the Gregorian chant. But the church musicians who make can't seem to stir up enthusiasm for contemporary pop music.

The last Daily Blog post focused on the ancient institution of the human family. This one deals with something not quite so ancient, but still a venerable and honored tradition: Gregorian chant. But ...