The spread of a particular genre of music reflects the borders between medieval empires in Europe. This is shown by a study conducted by a musicologist at the University of Würzburg, appearing in ...

Choral singing has always been a speciality of the Scandinavian countries, and this collection of medieval chant from Latvia’s Riga, Germany’s Hamburg, Sweden’s Lund, and unexpectedly Limoges in ...

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 ...

A rare collection of medieval plainchant, preserved in the Buckland Book and linked to England’s last generation of monks ...

Medieval chant books and the parchment they were made of were designed to last a long time — so long, that pages of them can outlast the book itself. Across medieval Europe, monks and nuns and clergy ...

Emma Hornby specialises in medieval music, especially Christian chant. She directs the Department of Music's women's choir, the Schola Cantorum, which specialises in medieval music and contemporary ...

A rare collection of medieval plainchant, lost since Henry VIII’s dissolution of England’s monasteries, has been performed for the first time in centuries. The music, found in the Buckland Book at the ...

You are warmly invited to join University of Bristol Music Department staff and students to spend a day experiencing chant, liturgy, and activities characteristic of medieval monastic life, in ...

It’s situated right in the middle of Sligo and interest is being renewed into the town’s abbey with heritage week playing its role in highlighting its history with a series of events including a ...

Jennifer Bain receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Anna de Bakker does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...