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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Music lovers in Charlotte have a rare opportunity this week to experience first-hand the music of Renaissance Venice. Renaissance Venice in Scenes and Sounds, a unique collaboration between UNC ...

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 ...

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 ...