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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Early music refers to music dating back to the 18 th century and earlier — think Baroque composers like Bach and Vivaldi, as well as Renaissance and Medieval music. Houston has no shortage of groups ...

Joel Spears has long wanted to celebrate and perform the music of brothers William and Henry Lawes, English composers of the 17th century. So Spears, artistic director of the Early Music Series in ...

“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 ...