Gregorian chant is freely available and a music of the people – not the domain of a stuffy, Catholic elite as it is often perceived, says a music scholar from ...

“Music for Paradise” was released in England on May 19, few people expected an overnight sensation. Tenth-century Gregorian chant may have its admirers, but it’s not exactly the latest thing to hit ...

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 ...

Bob Vylan, a punk-rap duo, caused international outrage by chanting the message at the Glastonbury music festival this year.

It isn't every day that a group of Catholic monks find themselves on the pop charts. Yet that's what happened to the monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz, a 12th-century Cistercian monastery near Vienna, ...

HEILIGENKREUZ, AUSTRIA — Working to reach No. 1 on the charts? Try praying. That’s how the monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey found fame. Their compilation of Gregorian chants, a form of sung prayer, has ...

At the end of nearly every Kansas University home basketball game – at least the ones the Jayhawks win – the Allen Fieldhouse crowd turns into a 16,300-member choir. Fans chant: “Rock, Chalk! Jayhawk!

In his letter to Cardinal Joseph Höffner for the Seventh International Congress of Sacred Music, John Paul II praised the unifying power of Gregorian chant within Catholic liturgy because of its ...

LONDON—Britain’s state-run broadcaster and the U.K.’s biggest music festival came under criticism Monday after a punk group led thousands of cheering fans in a chant that called for the deaths of ...

If you’ve gone to a BTS concert, (or stumbled upon a fan cam of the idols,) chances are you’ve heard fans screaming along as the boys performed. This is what’s referred to as a “fan chant” by members ...