Three remarkable new albums feature choral music spanning more than a millennium, including works by the world's earliest known female composer. From what is known, it seems Kassianí had an ...

Julianna Barwick owes a lot of her music to the church. The singer and composer grew up in rural Louisiana, where she’d attend services three times a week and sing a cappella hymns with the rest of ...

When I was in seminary, my theology professor started each class with our singing a hymn together, a cappella. He also gave us a bit of instruction in hymnology before we began our discussion of ...