Thanks to a classicist’s research, the sounds of ancient Greek music can be heard again. Scholars have long been familiar with the instruments used during the era, and, of course, with the texts by ...

Greek theatre used music with the drama. But what did it sound like? This video can not be played Dr David Creese plays a song originally found on stone inscriptions from ancient Greece on an ...

A centuries-old puzzle about the music that Ancient Greeks listened to has finally been solved, thanks to a pioneering new study. Music was an integral part of Ancient Greek culture, with the work of ...

Of all the mysteries of Ancient Greece, the Orphic Mysteries based on the myth of Orpheus are the most intriguing.

ATHENS (Reuters) - Hymns sung to the Greek gods thousands of years ago resonated from ancient musical instruments in Athens on Thursday, transporting a transfixed audience to antiquity. The phorminx, ...

Douglas Feaver of Bethlehem, a Lehigh University professor of classics and an expert in the music of the Grecian classical period, began developing his expertise the hard way. As an undergraduate at ...

Music has been with humans for a very, very long time. But as time marches on, history can lose the records of what that music sounded like. Take the Greeks for example. We can see the stadiums and ...

Dimitrios Yatromanolakis studies early classical music—the really early stuff. Over lunch recently, in a café not far from his office, at Harvard University, I asked him to describe what he's most ...

EVROPOS, Greece, - 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 nine strings that ...