It's time to switch the music off in order to rediscover its true value, says Roger Scruton.

It is impossible to imagine the Christian faith as we know it without Latin including where the word "Mass" comes from. Here are twelve words that have shaped the faith in Western Christendom.

There are lots of Bachs, but only one Sebastian and John Eliot Gardiner is his prophet.

My favorite living composer is Arvo Pärt who happens to be the most performed living composer in the world for the third year in a row.

He was a hit-maker — Queen Elizabeth's favorite composer, highly regarded at her wealthy and powerful Court.  But in reality, William Byrd led a double life.

Q: What is sacred music?

When reading papal documents about sacred music, we often find popes speaking about the need for music that possesses a certain sacrality, conduces to meditation, and exhibits high artistic quality.

Nobody who understands the experiences of melody, harmony, and rhythm will doubt their value.

The rabbis talking with the twelve-year-old Jesus about the Torah must have thought that he was a child prodigy.

I am regularly asked by parents how they can teach an appreciation of good traditional art to their children.