James Tyler, a maestro of the ancient lute who resuscitated centuries-old and largely forgotten European music through his work on recordings, concerts and television soundtracks, died Nov. 23 at a ...

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and ...

Archaeologists working in northeastern Spain say a cache of conch shells was not just decorative debris from ancient shorelines but a set of carefully modified instruments that once filled Neolithic ...

This weekend, for one day only, the elegant simplicity of the light-filled University of Houston Chapel will be transformed into a sonic museum. That is how Deborah Dunham likes to describe the work ...

A 15th century Italian banker named Cosimo de’ Medici, in addition to creating a financial empire, collected and preserved music from Florentine composers. The Newberry Consort will share music that ...

Houston Early Music's season opening concert features two of the Renaissance era's most important instruments: the organ and the cornetto. Acclaimed as the “Orfeo of the Cornetto,” Bruce Dickey ...

LONG AN, VIETNAM—According to an IFL Science report, a 2,000-year-old antler found in southern Vietnam near the Mekong River may have been part of a musical instrument. Fredeliza Campos of Australian ...

The ensemble Constantinople chose its name carefully when it started 20 years ago. Kiya Tabassian, artistic director/leader and co-founder of the Montreal-based musical group, knew the ancient Turkish ...

“Alcina,” which the Boston Early Music Festival will bring to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center beginning June 23, comes from an era when what we now call opera was in its infancy — and composer ...