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 ...

The Holy Father offered his praise to polyphonic music while welcoming participants at the June 18 event commemorating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, a ...

ECM New Series will release a live recording of THE TALLIS SCHOLARS performing at Basilica di San Marco in Venice, led by conductor Peter Phillips, on ...

ON a swelteringly hot morning in this elegant capital city recently, worshippers crammed in the ornately frescoed sixth-century Anchiskhati Basilica. Women in colorful head scarves prayed and kissed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...