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 ...

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 ...

The EP-1320 Medieval is a reskin of the EP-133 K.O. II with a few quirks, and it’s better if you treat it like a middle ages-centric instrument. Reading time 6 minutes That’s it; I’ve officially multi ...

Specializing in music from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance using instruments of that time period, Musica da Camera opens its 2014-15 season by reprising a concert it originally presented in 1990.

Teenage Engineering calls its new digital music sequencer an instrumentalis electronicum, “the ultimate, and only, medieval beat machine.” I call it coolium thingamajignus because the EP-1320 embodies ...

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 ...

BOISE, Idaho — The gentle hum and pluck of an ancient instrument fills the air as Joe Baldassarre plays a Medieval tune. The guitar he uses is unique -- the ornate body is inlaid with thousands of ...

As a lover of early (pre-renaissance) music, I’ve heard my share of medieval instruments like the vielle, rebec, sackbut and crumhorn. Add to that list the oliphant, which I learned about more ...

It was the “One” heard ’round the world, or at least by a reasonably large number of people on the internet. A little more than a year ago, the Belarus band Stary Olsa, who perform medieval music on ...