For some, Renaissance music provokes images of amorous madrigals, gleeful calls to go a-maying, and a lot of fa-la-la-ing. But the music is really more substantial than that. It frees the imagination, ...

Horns up for the hurdy-gurdy. The quirky Renaissance instrument proves it’s a match for heavy metal band, System of the Down. What happens when you combine a popular, boxy, Renaissance string ...

This Continuum program presents early music performed on four different instruments from the medieval and Renaissance periods. They are two string instruments and two wind instruments; the viola ...

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 ...

Who knew a metal classic could sound so good on an old Renaissance string instrument? Metallica are big classical music fans – they recorded their album S&M with the San Francisco Symphony in 1999, ...

You’ve heard of a pack of wolves, a gaggle of geese and a pride of lions. Now, courtesy of Candlelight Concerts, you can thrill to a “noyse of violins.” This Saturday evening at Columbia’s James Rouse ...

Is Simon Spalding a historian who plays music or a musician who delves into the culture of the past? Yes. But he’s also an author and composer. While critics and journalists like to categorize music ...

Ken Wryn's guitar teacher noticed that he responded more to music transcribed from old lute notations than tunes written for guitar. He lent Wryn his lute, but only for two weeks. After that, he told ...

Accentus, an early music ensemble from Austria, revives art forms rarely presented to Egyptian audiences A music ensemble from Austria invites Egyptian audiences into a journey through the era of old ...