Laudate is a collection of chants presented so all musicians—not only liturgists or specialist singers—can explore a repertory so rich and extraordinary that it has dominated and influenced musical composition for centuries, even to the present day.

Laudate is the companion volume to an important new pedagogical study of chant and its uses in teaching and performance, Discovering Chant, by Grammy-nominated Conductor James Jordan. Dr. Jordan is Professor of Conducting and Senior Conductor at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. He is conductor of The Westminster Schola Cantorum and the Westminster Williamson Voices.