A lot of Renaissance instrumental music is decorated with ornaments. These include mordents, trills and turns. They appear in a lot of keyboard and lute music of the time. A mordent is formed by ...

Madden gives the performance of a lifetime as Wilde, holding nothing back – to the point where, as he took his final bows, he ...

She cut her hair, disguised herself as a boy, and set out with a gusli. She reached the court of the wicked king and charmed him with her music. He promised her whatever she wished, and she said she ...

The idea is to bring people together who love emo and pop punk music in a space where they can celebrate it together. Emo music specifically features emotional and often confessional lyrics.

From the advent of MP3s to the births of Napster, iTunes and the streaming revolution, the shift to digital music forever changed the way we experience music. She may not think so herself ...

(Photo courtesy of Trinity Concert Series) The Trinity Lutheran Church in Pleasanton is hosting a group of singers and dancers who will be resurrecting the music of the Renaissance era this weekend as ...

The subject of Satan and evil will always remain one of interest to songwriters, no matter how controversial and unsettling. More than a century ago, Jelly Roll Morton was thrown out of the house ...

Composer-arranger-producer-musician Andrew Wells-Oberegger will release his second solo album on November 15. The nuanced ...

It is commonly used in discussion of music for lute, keyboard instruments, or the viol. In his 1972 study of French lute music, scholar Wallace Rave compiled a list of features he believed to be ...

At the age of just 32, he has gone on to become a virtuoso, playing both classical and electric guitar (and renaissance lute) ...