A female voice of aching purity begins the song a capella, reverberating as if coming from a cathedral choir loft as it climbs an octave, announcing: “centuriones convenerunt, sicut magi sacris nigris ...

Would you love to launch your own Middle Ages band but can’t find a lutist let alone a good hurdy gurdy player? First off, congratulations on knowing what a hurdy gurdy is (man). But second and more ...

If most of us had to list the 40 most important guitars throughout history on the spot, hastily conjured entries might include (jokingly or not) the Guitar Hero control and the air guitar. While both ...

Decked out in gold with Latin labelling, the EP-1320 Medieval arrives with an extensive bank of medieval-inspired samples that features farm animals, witches and "rowdy peasants" When you purchase ...

A company has created what it says is the “world’s first electronic medieval instrument”. Teenage Engineering, a Swedish company known for making musical products played by musicians including Bon ...

Medieval music specialists Irini Bilini Moraiti and Dimitris Kountouras talk about their distinctive approaches to Early ...

One of the most evocative of instruments, the lute conjures up images of a time long gone, of courtly love and medieval intrigue. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can ...

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