What makes a Christmas carol a Christmas carol? What's a hymn? What makes them different to popular songs? We're going to answer those questions in this handy guide to Christmas carols, hymns and ...

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Some claim music is rooted in our souls. Yet, if you've ever suffered through a tone-deaf friend singing along with the radio to one of your favorite tunes, you know that's not always true. When it ...

With the market for ringtones encompassing everything from rap to porn, it was only a matter of time before church-sanctioned religious tones got into the mix. St. Petri Church in Hamburg, Germany, is ...

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