William Mahrt, a towering figure in sacred music, left a legacy of preserving the Church’s traditional liturgical songs. Noted sacred music scholar William “Bill” Mahrt died Jan. 1 at the age of 85.

Sacred music has an objective greatness and essential purpose that needs to be rediscovered: that of leading souls to the divine, to heaven and to holiness, says the co-author of a new book interview ...

Ater a hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the New Orleans Sacred Music Festival is making a highly anticipated return for its eighth year. This free, day-long event celebrates spiritual traditions ...

In 1973, after the Union Theological Seminary’s School of Sacred Music, in New York City, closed its doors, the Indiana-based Irwin-Sweeney-Miller Foundation offered a grant to relocate the school to ...

Asked to describe the deep influence of Black sacred music on American culture, Braxton Shelley, a minister, musician, and musicologist at Yale, invoked the words of the 19th-century Czech composer ...

Wade in the Water is a 26-part series, originally released in 1994, that celebrates African American sacred music and traditions.. Listen to the episodes on NPR.org and NPR One. In 1994, when Wade in ...

The first printed music in the United States appeared in 1690, and the AMRC's holdings of published and manuscript American sacred music begin very shortly after. Our roughly two thousand tune books ...

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, ...

Thomas Tallis defied the authorities and the limits of music itself to create the 40-part motet Spem in alium. Allegri's Miserere was so precious that it was kept under lock and key. From the first ...

June 26 saw the demise of the famed Argentine-American pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor Lalo Schifrin at the age of 93. He is best known for his work as a composer for films and television ...

As dusk settled over the neo-Gothic styled Mae de Deus Church, strains of a centuries-old motet— sacred music popular during Renaissance-era—rose once again, signalling a quiet cultural revival in Goa ...