The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said the anthology has been valued at £214,200 and contains some 320 pieces by composers such as English musician John Dowland, a brother of ...

Founded in 1948, the Journal of the American Musicological Society welcomes topics from all fields of musical inquiry, including historical musicology, critical theory, music analysis, iconography and ...

Apart from Renaissance fairs and Sting albums, the lute makes relatively few public appearances these days. And when it does grace a concert stage, it's generally in the service of centuries-old ...

Sotheby’s is delighted to present the sale of manuscript and printed music from the library of the great Early Music pioneer Arnold Dolmetsch. The highlights are legion, but pride of place goes to ...

Stories of falling head over heels for an instrument are not unusual. What is unusual is love at first sight — or sound — when that instrument is the theorbo. In fact, it was the combination of both ...