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.

Gregorian chant was standard in the Mass in the 1950s, but fell out of favor after the Second Vatican Council, when the traditional Latin Mass was changed to the dominant language of each country.

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 ...

Move over, Madonna / A CD of Gregorian chants by a group of Cistercian monks is a surprise crossover hit, reaching the pop charts. By David Ian Miller July 28, 2008- ...

The study, “Gregorian Chant as a Practical School of Meditation,” concludes: “Even if Gregorian Chant is a religious art, it is also in danger of being taken out of its original context ...

Gregorian chant has persisted for more than a thousand years, but some fear the haunting melodies are in danger of fading away. That is, unless Stanford Professor William Mahrt has a voice in the ...

Over a period of a little more than a year, some 2,200 hours of Gregorian chants sung during Mass and Divine Office in the Tridentine forms, according to the ancient manuscript tradition, will be ...

Gregorian chant is monophonic and lacks rhythmic meters, but its very simplicity is what is appealing to a modern world desperately in need of serenity. In 1994, ...

Gregorian chants give each day in this cloistered monastery its spine and shape. The nuns sing together seven times a day, celebrating the divine office on an ancient schedule that begins with ...

Gregorian: Pure Chants in Concert is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, ...

This week Continuum features early music in the form of Gregorian chants; sacred songs sung in Latin from the Roman Catholic Church (and named for Pope Gregory I). These beautiful chants ...