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.

Janalynn Castelino has marked her first release of 2024 with the polyphonic Latin Chant "Jesu Salvator Mundi". Epic in every sense of the word, Janalynn has rendered the chant in 3 voices with the ...

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 ...

La Mòssa are a five-piece band of female vocalists who excel at polyphonic chant. They've just released their debut album A Mòssa and talk to us about reinterpreting folksongs they love in a free and ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. From their exile in southern India, the monks of Tashi Lhunpo have released their third album, now focused on ...

Rachael Kohn: What you're hearing is Gregorian Chant. But it seems Pope Gregory the 1st, known as The Great, had little if anything to do with it. Hello, this is The Ark, and I'm Rachael Kohn. The ...