Going through the neoclassical, or new age, music genre shows a variety of musicians and styles.  It is common to find chant music in this genre.  Yes - chant music like monks chant in monasteries all over the world. 

I was watching a DVD tonight (no segue, but trust me, it is relevant) - it was one of the episodes of “Babylon 5,” which is a science fiction series.  I won’t go into all the details.  Those don’t matter, but suffice to say, that an alien of much higher development, intelligence, and technology was “training,” a mere human.  The lesson was a, “Moment of Pure Beauty.”

The moment turned out to be a very run down part of a space station.  A robed figure was suddenly joined and the junkheap corner of the spaceship turned into… well, I am having trouble describing it.  It was a moment of pure beauty. 

The subtitles said it was Gregorian chant.  I am not convinced and I can’t find any reference to it anywhere.  I am wondering if you might know.  It is so beautiful - the rest of the music on the show is done by Christopher Franke (of neoclassical Tangerine Dream) and the Berlin Symphonic Film Orchestra and this was definitely not them. 

The name of the episode is “There All The Honor Lies.”  If anyone knows what kind of chant this is, please let me know.  You can email me at adelle (at) syntagmamedia (dot) com.