Asked if she fancied making ‘extreme early music’, Stef Conner couldn’t resist. Little did she realise how extreme. She explains how she has breathed life into a 4,000-year-old language Sometimes the ...

The Anglo-Saxon lyre is one of the most iconic musical instruments of medieval Europe. Photo 12/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Many replicas today are based on an artifact found at Sutton Hoo, a ...

Academy Village resident Anne Kilmer will speak on "Ancient Music" at a special Arizona Senior Academy presentation Wednesday. Scheduled for 3:30 p.m., the program will also include harpist Lorna ...

A 1,600-year-old lyre found in modern Kazakhstan matches musical instruments seen in Anglo-Saxon burials of the first millennium ad, suggesting that technology transfer occurred across thousands of ...

This article originally appeared in New Scientist. Stef Conner is a composer, performer, and musicologist with interests straddling classical and folk genres. She is working with a group that ...

EVROPOS, Greece, Nov 28 (Reuters) - In Evropos, a village in northern Greece, Danis Koumartzis carves out the wooden sound box of a traditional lyre before covering it with animal hide and attaching ...

Stef Conner is working with a group that recreated an ancient lyre and aims to recreate the song music of the 2nd millennium BC We have the text of lots of poems from ancient Mesopotamia, and it seems ...

More than 200 people from 16 different countries are converging on Belfast for Lyre 2006. The international event, which revolves around the musical instrument, takes place over six days, beginning on ...