Music from England’s Golden Age: Sublime sacred music soaring above intrigues of church and state, and intimate lute songs full of love and longing. This Air is from Royall Consort — Sett No. 2. This ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Multi-instrumentalist Mark Cudek uses music to travel back in time. As a veteran early music performer and chair of the Peabody Conservatory's Historical Performance Department, he's been playing and ...

Classical musician and composer Michael Eagan, who co-founded Musica Angelica, a highly regarded early music group based in Los Angeles, has died. He was 55. Eagan died of an apparent heart attack ...

Larry Brown likes lutes. He's probably made more of them than anyone in the history of lute making since the Renaissance, around 1,300 or so. He also makes violins, violas, reproductions of antique ...

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 ...

Dawn C. Culbertson, a composer and performer who had been the overnight host of a classical music radio program in Baltimore, died of an apparent heart attack Thursday after an evening of English ...