Orpheus, the son of god of music Apollo and muse Calliope, was the greatest bard, mystic, and prophet in ancient Greek ...

Academy Village resident Anne Kilmer will speak on "Ancient Music" at a special Arizona Senior Academy presentation Wednesday. Scheduled for 3:30 p.m., the program will also include harpist Lorna ...

In 1932, the musicologist Wilfrid Perrett reported to an audience at the Royal Musical Association in London the words of an unnamed professor of Greek with musical leanings: 'Nobody has ever made ...

When a hootenanny struck up 3,000—or 30,000—years ago, no recording engineer was there to capture what went down. Can anyone know, then, what ancient instruments like the aulos and carnyx really ...

Stef Conner is working with a group that recreated an ancient lyre and aims to recreate the song music of the 2nd millennium BC We have the text of lots of poems from ancient Mesopotamia, and it seems ...

More than 200 people from all over the world will converge on the Elmwood Hall at Queen's University - the home of the Ulster Orchestra - to take part in the third annual World Lyre Conference, which ...

More than 200 people from 16 different countries are converging on Belfast for Lyre 2006. The international event, which revolves around the musical instrument, takes place over six days, beginning on ...

These songs are examples of how art and science can come together to create something incredible. Musician Stef Conner learned to read several ancient Babylonian and Sumerian tablets written in ...

As the Academy of Ancient Music celebrates its 50th birthday, Hannah French chats to music director Laurence Cummings and CEO John McMunn about the ensemble's remarkable history. Show more The Academy ...

In an interview, she also tells tQ about the challenges of improvising and recording music made on a replica of an instrument buried with the Sutton Hoo ship in the seventh century As ever in ...