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.

The Pope has called for a revival of the sacred music of the church's past. After folk and rock 'n' roll Masses, what will the faithful make of polyphony, asks Aengus Collins Earlier this summer a ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... New York Polyphony is not the usual sort of vocal quartet to make the rounds. The group, which makes its Colorado debut at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral ...

A concert of Renaissance Christmas music might seem like an odd place for a world premiere, but a new composition by Nico Muhly found a way to harmonize with the polyphony of Palestrina, Byrd, and ...

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 ...

The respected New York Polyphony ensemble will sing glorious compositions from Tudor England at Ardee's Baroque Festival next month THE CHURCH OF Ireland in Collon, Co Louth is dramatic and ...

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, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When Italian Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo caught his wife and her lover in flagrante and murdered them both in ...

Benedict XVI highlights two aspects of sacred music: "it cooperates to nourish and express faith, and thus to glorify God and sanctify the faithful" and can "facilitate the discovery of God, a renewed ...

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 ...