Roman Catholic parish musicians will benefit from the included Vespers "cheat sheet", resources for antiphons, description of psalm tones and their relationship to proper antiphons, and nearly 70 sheet music files included here.

The Liturgy is cosmic and epic, and Hildegard wanted her community to live and believe this! Hildegard was a leader, and especially a liturgist. This is why her music was so important, as a revelation of the heavenly cosmos: the heavenly Liturgy.

The Liturgy is a point of contact between temporal and eternal, made sensibly present on earth via Gregorian chants in a myriad of ways.

Gregorian chant is "sung speech": a form of music heavily shaped by the language qualities of the sacred texts it adorns.

Many enjoy Gregorian chant simply for its sense of peace and calm, but at its heart, these beloved melodies belong at service to the texts.

A mix from the 14th to 18th centuries by legendary masters Dufay, Ockegham, Tallis, Palestrina, Byrd, and Telemann, and lesser-known but no

If you already know the basics for sight reading chant notation, but still find it to be a struggle, this article is for you.

Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is as old as the Christian Church. Here we see ancient melodies finding new voice in modern chants.

Sequence is derived from the Latin word sequor (to follow). What does it follow? The Alleluia chant. Here is where our disconnect begins.

Easter is more than a day; it is a whole season. Your choir will enjoy singing these 7 ancient choral works for Eastertide.

Hard-learned tips and musings from this experienced (and perhaps somewhat battle-scarred) church musician and singer.

Praying the Psalms is at the very heart of Hebrew and Christian worship. “Seven times a day I praise you,” the psalmist wrote. The Psalms te

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The offertory chant is the most splendid of all, setting precedent for similar musical largesse later in offertory motets, organ voluntaries

Most of us have been drafted (more or less willingly, some even tricked into it!) due to some degree of singing talent, given a tiny bit of

In the Christian tradition, Psalm 129 plays a pivotal role in the Office of the Dead, and just before the solemnity of Christ the King.

This blog post is dedicated to a few musical gems of the ancient past which are suitable especially for Adventide.

It's going to be several more weeks before radio stations start to broadcast Christmas music, and the new choir year is only just...

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When studying Gregorian chant in its liturgical context, we discover that many feasts are named after the chants they contain. Laetare...