Before Guido came along, all people had to remember a tune was a rough guide of dots or neumes which go vaguely up or down according to the melody, but Guido does three things – 1) he adds lines ...

Every day for three years, US musician John Anderson is recording the daily plainchant sung by a community of 45 nuns, who live in seclusion at the Abbey of Notre-Dame de Fidélité of Jouques, near Aix ...

The harmonisation of the ancient tune is simple, though Beethoven has added chromatic ornamentation to the plainchant line. "Beethoven did not scorn simplicity," Professor Cooper said.

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Abstract: 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 ...

But this community of 23 nuns living in the south of England have found themselves unexpected recording stars. Their spiritual album, Light for the World, took the No.1 spot in both the Classical ...

From neumes to sheet music. There was a natural development between medieval neumes and sheet music as it is known today, Helsen said. But before either, people relied on their memory to recall ...