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.

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. -- Though they’ve made a name for themselves singing music that’s hundreds of years old, the four men of New York Polyphony are unequivocably voices of their own times, not ancient ...

ON a swelteringly hot morning in this elegant capital city recently, worshippers crammed in the ornately frescoed sixth-century Anchiskhati Basilica. Women in colorful head scarves prayed and kissed ...

Pope Francis has encouraged the Church to make sure that liturgical music fulfills its purpose. As he told participants in an international conference on sacred music March 4, church music should ...

Ask Peter Phillips, founder and longtime director of the Tallis Scholars — renowned specialists in a cappella sacred music from the Renaissance — about the global appeal of the group’s sound, and his ...

Performances at Trinity Cathedral and the Musical Instrument Museum will feature sacred works for Holy Week and a spring-themed program marking the ensemble’s MIM debut. The Phoenix Chorale will ...

Editor’s note: To listen along as you read, click the links in the text. These pieces were performed for The Economist by the choir of Jesus College, Cambridge. IN 1605 Charles de Ligny, a Frenchman, ...

The 21st annual Summer Festival of Sacred Music at St. Bartholomew's Church continues on Sunday, August 2, at 11 am with Giacomo Carissimi's Missa Concertata in C Major for Men's Voices. Giacomo ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — It was music that revived a nearly empty Louisville church in the 1970s. Now that same church, the Shrine of St. Martin of Tours, hopes to keep singing but needs help to ...