Seven times a day, the sisters of the Abbey of Notre-Dame-de-Fidélité in Jouques, a small Provencal village in southern France, gather to pray the Divine Office in Gregorian chant. Above their ...

Saint Jude’s Parish in Cité Gendarmerie, a residential area in the Senegalese capital of Dakar for military families, has become famous for Gregorian chant. And most of the people who sing in ...

To this day, Gregorian chant remains at the bedrock of the Latin ... (A printed program with musical notation allows attendees to follow along with the mass.) Later, in the choir’s first longer ...

Music notation was becoming more precise ... of the children and the gravity of the cello, reminiscent of the Gregorian chant of the monks," Borel explained. "It will evoke the meeting of the ...

A few decades later Pope Gregory – the man credited with invented the Gregorian chant ... But music notation was still missing one thing: the duration of notes. Around 1250, Franco of Cologne invented ...

Every day, these monks sing the entire liturgy during mass in both Latin and English in Gregorian chant. It’s secondary to them, as natural as breathing in air. The monks face one another and ...

Alipius was a Greek writer and composer who wrote an Introduction to Music (Εἰσαγωγη Μουσική) in which he included the symbols used by the Greeks in musical notation for voice and instruments to ...

This option is made possible by the French Abbey of Sainte Madeleine du Barroux, a symbol ... square notation, the historical and most widely used musical notation system in Gregorian chant.

CUMBERLAND — Mountainside Baroque will host Echoes of the Oratory: A Gregorian Chant-Along on Nov. 11 at 3 ... Participants will learn to read original chant notation, learn a little history and ...

This haunting, 13th-century Gregorian chant has worked its way into many favourite film scores, and plays a special part in Hans Zimmer’s music to ‘The Lion King’. Whether you heard it first on ...