Along with its brutal and complex medieval melee combat, one of the highlights of Mordhau is its lute. The string instrument of choice for many medieval bards, Mordhau’s lute lets players wander the ...

On the surface, Mordhau is serious business. Inspired by games such as Mount & Blade, War of the Roses, and Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, it attempts to mix tense melee combat with multiplayer trappings ...

Berlin’s music scene is notorious for its unrelenting beats and chemical heart, its constant drive for the new. But a few artisans who hand-craft instruments work hard to keep medieval and baroque ...

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 da ...

Because English solo songs from the Golden Age period (c.1600—20) are chiefly familiar from printed books clearly intended for domestic use, modern scholars and performers have tended to assume that ...

In contrast to their rather inelegant name, the Suspicious Cheese Lords have a sumptuous, sophisticated sound. The all-male a capella ensemble performs centuries-old, never-before-recorded songs.

One of the silver linings of 2020—there are some!—has been an influx of hit songs in the style of the bard. This medieval version of Radiohead’s “Creep,” for example, is ideal for “muck-gathering ...

Contemporary artist Sting rocks with 400-year-old Elizabethan ballad On a Warner Bros Television sound stage, Sting is perched on a stool, singing a plaintive, urgent ballad to an absent lover. No ...

Last month, volatile little Composer Ernest Bloch gave Portland, Ore. music lovers his best advice on how to behave at a concert (TIME, March 7). “Don’t be inhibited,” he hollered happily from the ...

Tim Shephard receives funding from The Leverhulme Trust. Did you once put a poster of your favourite music artist on your bedroom wall? Are there a few faded gig T-shirts in your bottom drawer? Have ...