Two Seattle choruses, the Tudor Choir and the Esoterics, offer contrasting programs this weekend — and if you time it right, you can squeeze in both some 20th-century choral landmarks and some ...

As a small choral group bringing Western sacred music to the Far East, Chinese listeners hearing the unfamiliar sounds of Renaissance-era polyphony for the first time also can experience the Gospel ...

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.

At the beginning of the Mass for Double Choir by Swiss composer Frank Martin, simple, flowing lines for the altos evoke the purity of Gregorian chant. Then the sopranos make their entrance, and the ...

Peter Phillips explores later developments in Renaissance choral music, focusing on the music of Thomas Tomkins in England, Manuel Cardoso in Portugal and Juan Padilla in Mexico. Show more Peter ...

The choir%2C called Schola d'Arezzo%2C is named after a monk who invented the notes of the scale. New members are always welcome%2C director Rev. Mark Falcone says. Concert is at 2%3A30 p.m. Sunday at ...

The 17th century was the time of the highest flowering of choral musical culture in Russia and Ukraine. This century was also the richest in the variety of musical styles of liturgical music. In the ...

For The Telegraph ST. LOUIS — With a 1,500-year tradition, the oldest and most respected active choir in the world comes to North America for the first time. Rome’s Pontifical Sistine Chapel Choir, ...

Magnus Williamson discusses the Tudor practice of singing from a common choirbook on a lectern, which leads to an ‘ear-opening experience’ Orlandus Lassus directs the Bavarian court Kapelle. The red ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — Plenty of artists playing the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center have an extensive back catalogue to draw from, but Tim Keeler may have them all beat. As music director of Chanticleer, ...

The angelic choirs must sound something like this, full-throated in song: four strands of voice — soprano, alto, tenor, bass — weaving toward the same destination along different roads of melody. The ...