In an age when most people go to "see" a concert, Renaissance lute player Jose Miguel Moreno performed at St. Philip's in the Hills Episcopal Church with the kind of music that allows you to sit back, ...

In this article Robin Headlam Wells argues that the renaissance luthier adapted the decorative motifs which his instrument inherited from its Islamic origins in order to express the idea of harmony.

Down the halls of academia and behind a ridiculously heavy wooden door, nude humans cavort in a field of giant strawberries and biologically fantastic creatures, including winged fish walking on land.

Early Music is a stimulating and richly illustrated journal that is unrivalled in its field. Founded in 1973, it remains the journal for anyone interested in early music and how it is being ...

When Joseph Mayes heard the lute, it was love at first note. The Collingswood resident was studying with guitar master Andrés Segovia in Spain in 1968 when the music coming from the pear-shaped ...

Take a musical journey back in time when Courtly Noyse brings music from the Renaissance — along with reproduction instruments of that era — to the Rancho Bernardo Library. Seating is limited for the ...

Wait long enough and an old-style musical instrument, much like an out-of-date piece of clothing, might eventually come back in fashion. Or do what lutenist Ronn McFarlane is doing and take an ...

Tim Shephard receives funding from The Leverhulme Trust. Did you once put a poster of your favourite music artist on your bedroom wall? Are there a few faded gig T-shirts in your bottom drawer? Have ...

Robert Ballard was one of the most famous lutenist-composers of the first decades of the seventeenth century, during which the lute was the favored instrument of the Parisian aristocracy and upper ...

The NBA’s decision to have 64-year-old British singer-songwriter Sting perform at halftime of the All-Star Game in Toronto was a curious one. Pairing the former Police frontman with the pageantry of ...