The Guild Review

Tomorrow is the Solemnity of Christ the King, instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925.  Coming on the final Sunday of the liturgical year, it is ...

O God, Who crowned the innocence and holiness of the virgin Cecilia with the wreath of heroic martyrdom and consoled her with t...

This song needs no preface.

Most Americans know at least the opening line of Robert Burn's poem "Auld Lang Syne," set to a Scottish folk tune which is at ...

My favorite lines from any hymn come from "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing": Veiled in flesh, the Godhead see / Hail the incarnate De...

Happy St. Patrick's Day! This year, to supply you with Irish music on the one day of the year when it is on demand, I will show you a ...

I have recently been reading through a delightful little volume titled Augustine Day by Day  (hence the recent post from his Confessions ). ...

This year in honor of St. Patrick's Day, a few polkas. Most people would be surprised to learn that the Irish dance polkas, but it...

Bob Dylan said in a 1965 interview  about folk music: "It's weird, man, full of legend, myth, Bible and ghosts." Sometimes,...

Volker Bertelmann - aka " Hauschka " - has jury-rigged his piano to produce a wide variety of sounds, allowing him to play what so...

We don't hear much about Advent at this time of year. Once Thanksgiving passes, we pass over Advent in the rush to get to Christmas. W...

Yes, yes, I know the actual holiday was on Friday, but this evening will be the annual celebration at the University of Dallas. The evening...

Aaron's post yesterday about the fabled Northwest Passage , and Stan Rogers' song about it, brought to my mind a common folk song ab...

Early this spring I woke up with the chorus to Stan Rogers' "Northwest Passage" rolling through my head. In that state of sem...

One of the oddities of Aristotle's Politics --at least for the modern reader--is that it ends with a somewhat lengthy discussion of musi...

This song - and the accompanying video - by Mumford & Sons first came to my attention when one of my housemates had a kind of binge, pl...

I just listened to this recording by the London Baroque of Pachelbel's famous--and overplayed--canon and gigue in D major. The musician...

I'm fidgety. It's one of those days: the weather is beautiful and I should be somewhere other than in a computer lab entering exam ...

What with all the discussion of music here of late, I thought I would alert our readers to a recent article by Roger Scruton . The article ...

A few mornings ago, I was singing one of my favorite songs, Chicago , from Sufjan Stevens' Come on, Feel the Illinoise album. The song...