We have all heard it, yet most of us would not be able to name it. The term polyphony (from the Greek for “many sounds”) is used to describe music that employs simultaneous yet independent melodies.

On a recent Monday at the Abbey of Regina Laudis here, about 35 nuns gather in a dim chapel to chant, as they do every day at noon. Making their way through Psalm 118, the nuns sit or stand; some face ...

The St. Ann Choir of Palo Alto, Calif., was new when William Mahrt joined in 1963. At the time he was a graduate student at nearby Stanford University. Today Mahrt is a Stanford music professor, ...

Byzantine music. Anastaseos imera (Ode) ; Doxology ; O quando in cruce (Latin version) --Byzantine and Ambrosian hymns. Ote to stavro (Greek version) ; Veni redemptor gentium --Pre-Gregorian music.

The Pope has called for a revival of the sacred music of the church's past. After folk and rock 'n' roll Masses, what will the faithful make of polyphony, asks Aengus Collins Earlier this summer a ...

Madam, - Adrian P. Gebruers laments (April 13th) that "Gregorian chant and the sacred polyphony of the great masters is now heard… Madam, - Adrian P. Gebruers laments (April 13th) that "Gregorian ...

Title from container. Automatic sequence. RCA Victor: LM-6015. "The history of music in sound. Vol. 2: Early medieval music up to 1300, edited by Dom Anselm Hughes. New York, Oxford University Press, ...