After a concert of 16th- and 17th-century music recently, the pope said he would prefer to hear Gregorian chant and other traditional types of music play more of a role during Mass. That's good ...

To this day, Gregorian chant remains at the bedrock of the Latin mass, as well as the development of Western music overall. After the organist’s prelude and a hymn for the whole congregation ...

Members of the choir sing Gregorian chant during Mass Oct. 8 at St. John the Beloved Church in McLean, Virginia. Gregorian chant is the singing of the liturgy and its texts are almost entirely ...

The McClatchey Newspapers article notes that use of Gregorian chant is experiencing a resurgence in the Mass, after a period following the Second Vatican Council when some liturgical reformers ...

the most formal version of Latin Mass with more celebrants, incense and Gregorian chants. One of the celebrants was Archbishop Gregory Aymond, who told the congregation that the Pope’s letter wa ...

Not only has he proposed to widen the use of Baroque sacred music and Gregorian chant — the medieval music ... may seek to eliminate the folk-style masses that have dominated services for ...

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.

For a large part of the Catholic Church’s history, the fundamental music in every mass was Gregorian chant. This type of chant gets its name from Pope Gregory I, who is credited with hearing ...

BETHLEHEM, Conn. -- Five o'clock on a late-winter afternoon, and in a pine-paneled church on a Connecticut hillside, a bell tolls the sun's descent into the woods outside the picture windows.

Mary Ratterman St. Philippine Duchesne For centuries, Gregorian ... the Tridentine Mass. Catholics soon began to discover the beauty of the pre-Vatican II liturgy and Gregorian chant.