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 ...

A new Gregorian chant CD by a group of Benedictine monks in Norcia, Italy, made it debut on Billboard’s classical-music chart at No. 1 last week. The album, Benedicta, was also the top overall seller ...

On Continuum this week will be a special program devoted Gregorian Chant, from a ten-CD set of the History of Music. Specifically, this volume covers musical Europe in the era of Gregorian unification ...

A new Gregorian chant CD by a group of Benedictine monks in Norcia, Italy, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s classical music chart last week (June 10). The album, “Benedicta,” was also the top overall ...

For centuries, Gregorian chants — unaccompanied singing traditionally done by monks and other male clerics in the early days of the Catholic Church — were written with “nuemes,” inflective notations ...

For centuries, Gregorian chants — unaccompanied singing traditionally done by monks and other male clerics in the early days of the Catholic Church — were written with “nuemes,” inflective notations ...

Talk about your golden oldies: The surprise hit on the pop charts is a CD reissue of music that is 1,500 years old. On March 15, Angel Records released an album of Gregorian chants performed by monks ...

When Father Jerome Molokie learned that his community’s newly released CD “Christmas at St. Michael’s Abbey: Chants for the Three Masses of Christmas” was on its second run of being duplicated, he ...

(RNS) A new Gregorian chant CD, "Benedicta," debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s classical music chart last week (June 10). Why does chant have such a secular appeal? (RNS) A new Gregorian chant CD by a ...