In Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, archaeologists found the earliest Christian hymn with lyrics and music. Studied at Oxford, it ...

For at least 500 years, Babylonian children were tasked with memorizing a hymn that celebrated the city of Babylon, its citizenry, and chief deity Marduk. There was much to praise: the city was ...

Maria Solis is at home with the sprawling, diversity of Catholic liturgical music in the United States. Growing up bilingual in Texas, she saw the eclectic cultural influences of music at Mass, and, ...

A special worship service in the University Chapel, led by the dean and the associate dean of religious life and the chapel, that features festive music of the season! With music by Kenneth Grayson, ...

On Nov. 18, 1861, Julia Ward Howe, a prominent Boston poet, attended a review of Union troops outside Washington, D.C. As her carriage made its way back to the city, inching along roads clogged with ...

Songwriters living in ancient Egypt would never have expected the words and melodies they sang would feature on Australian music charts 1,800 years later. But one Australian academic's obsession with ...

A tradition of more than three decades will take place again next month at First Presbyterian Church in downtown Fort Myers, as an official sanctioned event of the Edison Festival of Lights. The ...

A hymn dedicated to the ancient city of Babylon has been discovered after 2,100 years. Sung to the god Marduk, patron deity of the great city, the poem describes Babylon's flowing rivers, jewelled ...